HR 5609 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

Introduced Apr 25, 2018 Originated House Sponsor Keith Ellison D-MN

Latest action · May 22, 2018 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.

IntroducedApr 25, 2018
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; and (2) increase the corporate income tax rate to 24.5% to provide revenues for programs created by this bill.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture must allocate funds from the trust fund to 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 for 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 53

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 25, 2018 to Dec 6, 2018; 36 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NY	Adriano Espaillat	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MN	Betty McCollum	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MI	Brenda L. Lawrence	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NH	Carol Shea-Porter	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Jared Huffman	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-KY	John A. Yarmuth	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Nanette Diaz Barragán	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-VT	Peter Welch	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-WA	Pramila Jayapal	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Ro Khanna	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Salud O. Carbajal	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren	Original	Apr 25, 2018
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries		May 23, 2018
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham		Jun 1, 2018
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard		Jun 6, 2018
D-CA	Alan S. Lowenthal		Jun 15, 2018
D-CA	Judy Chu		Jul 23, 2018
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Jul 23, 2018
D-NJ	Albio Sires		Jul 24, 2018
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 24, 2018
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke		Jul 24, 2018
D-TN	Steve Cohen		Jul 26, 2018
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Jul 27, 2018
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Jul 31, 2018
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Sep 25, 2018
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle		Sep 25, 2018
D-CA	Karen Bass		Sep 25, 2018
D-OR	Suzanne Bonamici		Oct 19, 2018
D-MI	Brenda Jones		Dec 6, 2018

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 Apr 25, 2018
	Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee	Referred Apr 26, 2018
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Apr 25, 2018
House	Ways and Means Committee	Referred Apr 25, 2018
House	Agriculture Committee	Referred Apr 25, 2018
	Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development Subcommittee	Referred May 22, 2018

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

May 22, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
Apr 26, 2018Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Apr 25, 2018Introduced in House
Apr 25, 2018Referred 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.

In the Congressional Record 2

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
House	Debate and remarks H5754	Tulsi Gabbard D-HI	Jun 27, 2018
House	Lists H3575H.R. 5609–5623	—	Apr 25, 2018

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution of the United States, which states: The Congress shall have the power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 164, no. 67, April 25, 2018, page H3575.

CRS reports 3

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 3

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

Product	Title	Kind	Published
R45304	Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (DWSRF): Overview, Issues, and Legislation Archived	Report	Oct 2, 2018
R44963	Wastewater Infrastructure: Overview, Funding, and Legislative Developments Archived	Report	May 22, 2018
IF10883	Overview of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Water Infrastructure Programs and FY2018 Appropriations	Resource	May 9, 2018

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1673	Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017	Related bill	Apr 11, 2017

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To establish a trust fund to provide for adequate funding for water and sewer infrastructure, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Apr 25, 2018Introduced in House

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