116 HR 2440 RH: Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act U.S. House of Representatives 2019-07-02 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

IB Union Calendar No. 100 116th CONGRESS1st Session H. R. 2440 [Report No. 116–136, Part 1] IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 1, 2019 Mr. DeFazio (for himself, Mr. Graves of Missouri, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Westerman, and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on 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 July 2, 2019 Additional sponsors: Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Schrader, Mr. Graves of Louisiana, Miss González-Colón of Puerto Rico, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Craig, Mr. Carbajal, Mrs. Fletcher, Mrs. Hartzler, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Wittman, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mr. Stauber, and Mr. Weber of Texas July 2, 2019 Reported from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure July 2, 2019 Committee on the Budget discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed A BILL To provide for the use of funds in the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for the purposes for which the funds were collected and to ensure that funds credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are used to support navigation, and for other purposes.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act.

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Use of Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to support navigation

Section 210 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2238) is amended— (1)in the section heading, by striking Authorization of appropriations and inserting Funding for navigation; and (2)by adding at the end the following: (g)

Adjustments to discretionary spending limits

Amounts made available from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under this section or section 9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be made available in accordance with section 251(b)(2)(G) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985..

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Annual report to Congress

Section 330 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1992 (26 U.S.C. 9505 note; 106 Stat. 4851) is amended— (1)in subsection (a)— (A)by striking and annually thereafter, and inserting and annually thereafter concurrent with the submission of the President’s annual budget request to Congress,; and (B)by striking Public Works and Transportation and inserting Transportation and Infrastructure; and (2)in subsection (b)(1) by adding at the end the following: (D)A description of the expected expenditures from the trust fund to meet the needs of navigation for the fiscal year of the budget request..

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Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund discretionary spending limit adjustment

Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (G)

Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund

(i)

In general

If a bill or joint resolution making appropriations for a fiscal year is enacted that specifies an amount for harbor maintenance activities, then the adjustments for that fiscal year shall be the total of such amount in that Act for such purpose for that fiscal year, but may not exceed the total amount within the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under subsection (a) of section 9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 on the last day of the fiscal year that is two years prior to that fiscal year. (ii)

Limitation

The adjustment under clause (i) with respect to an amount made available for harbor maintenance activities may only be made if such amount— (I)is derived solely from funds in such Trust Fund; and (II)is made available for expenditures described under subsection (c) of such section 9505..

July 2, 2019 Reported from the Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureJuly 2, 2019 Committee on the Budget discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed