3.0.0 1544 2023-01-11T13:30:42Z 2023-01-11T13:30:42Z Senate S 2015-06-10 114 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-06-10T21:05:36Z 2015-06-10 ssap00 Appropriations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations. IntroReferral 2015-06-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress F000444 Sen. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ] JEFF FLAKE R AZ N M001170 Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO] Claire McCaskill D MO 2015-06-22 False L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2015-07-09 False Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Congressional oversight Department of Transportation Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Government trust funds Legislative rules and procedure Roads and highways Transportation and Public Works Transportation programs funding Economics and Public Finance 00 2015-06-10 Introduced in Senate 2015-08-25T18:57:32Z Jurassic Pork Act

This bill rescinds unused earmarks previously appropriated to the Department of Transportation (DOT) and transfers the balances to the Highway Trust Fund.

Under the House and Senate rules, an earmark is a provision or report language included primarily at the request of a Member of Congress providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific state, locality or congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.

Under this bill, earmarks provided to DOT are unused and rescinded if more than 90% of the funding remains available for obligation at the end of the 9th fiscal year following the year the earmark was made available. DOT may delay the rescission if it determines that an additional obligation is likely to occur during the 10th year after funds were made available.

The bill requires each federal agency to submit an annual report to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) identifying: (1) each earmark for a project that is ineligible for funding, (2) projects for which funding has been made available under an earmark, and (3) projects with unobligated balances.

OMB must submit to Congress and post on its website an annual report including an accounting of unobligated earmarks, rescissions resulting from this bill, and DOT earmarks scheduled to be rescinded.

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