3.0.0 4975 2023-01-14T22:48:21Z 2023-01-14T22:48:21Z House H HR 2004-07-22 108 hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee House Standing hspw07 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee Referred to 2004-07-23T16:10:13Z Referred to 2004-07-22T14:13:50Z hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2004-07-22T14:13:45Z 2004-07-23 hspw07 Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee 1 House committee actions Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Committee 2004-07-22 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hspw00 Transportation and Infrastructure Committee 2004-07-22 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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. IntroReferral H11100-A 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-22 Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2004-07-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress M001137 Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6] GREGORY MEEKS D NY W. 6 N Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative procedure Anguilla Animals Antigua and Barbuda Armed Forces and National Security Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda British West Indies Business records Caribbean area Coast guard Commerce Crime and Law Enforcement Department of Defense Department of Homeland Security Dominica Economics and Public Finance Environmental Protection Environmental law enforcement Environmental technology Equipment and supplies Excise tax Federal aid to water pollution control Fines (Penalties) Fraud Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government trust funds Governmental investigations Grenada Guyana Haiti Haiti compilation Harbors Informers Infrastructure International Affairs Jamaica Latin America Law Marine and coastal resources, fisheries Marine pollution Marine resources conservation Marine terminals Montserrat Passenger ships Pollution control Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Science, Technology, Communications Signs and signboards Suriname Taxation Telephone Transportation and Public Works Trinidad and Tobago Virgin Islands Waste disposal in the ocean Wildlife conservation Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2004-07-22 Introduced in House 2004-09-30T19:59:22Z Pay Back America Act of 2004 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a per passenger tax on covered international voyages of commercial passenger vessels.

Establishes the Caribbean Ports and Infrastructure Protection Trust Fund (Caribbean Fund) and the Water and Marine Wildlife Protection Trust Fund (Wildlife Fund) in the Treasury. Appropriates to those funds a percentage of the above-referenced taxes.

Authorizes the Secretary of of the Treasury to make specified payments from the Caribbean Fund to the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Anguilla, Bermuda, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Requires amounts in the Wildlife Fund to be used for ocean waste cleanup or enforcement of restrictions on ocean dumping.

Directs the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to issue regulations requiring cruise vessels entering U.S. ports or places to have: (1) posted notice that passengers may report illegal dumping from the vessel by calling a toll-free number; and (2) included such notice on each ticket sold.

Prohibits: (1) vessels from entering U.S. ports or places absent properly functioning pollution prevention equipment or compliance with notice requirements; (2) false entries in a vessel's oil record book or record of shore-side disposal; (3) operation of cruise vessels in U.S. foreign or domestic commerce that fail to comply with notice requirements.

Requires biannual inspections of vessels.

]]> Pay Back America Act of 2004 Display Title Pay Back America Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on the international transportation of individuals by water, to establish the Caribbean Ports and Infrastructure Improvement Trust Fund and the Water and Marine Wildlife Protection Trust Fund, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Pay Back America Act of 2004 Introduced in House 2004-07-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-108hr4975ih/xml/BILLS-108hr4975ih.xml 2004-07-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. 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. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.