[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3262 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3262

  To impose an additional duty on imported goods and to provide that 
amounts equal to the revenues delivered therefrom be available for the 
                     national health care purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 1993

Mr. Traficant introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
      to the Committees on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To impose an additional duty on imported goods and to provide that 
amounts equal to the revenues delivered therefrom be available for the 
                     national health care purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL IMPORT DUTY.

    (a) General Rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, with 
respect to any good that is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for 
consumption, in the customs territory of the United States on or after 
January 1, 1994, there is imposed--
            (1) if the good is, without regard to this Act, dutiable, 
        an additional duty of 4 percent ad valorem; and
            (2) if the good is, without regard to this Act, duty-free, 
        a duty of 4 percent ad valorem.
    (b) Exemptions.--Subsection (a) does not apply to any good that is 
imported for the use of a Federal agency if the head of that agency 
certifies to the Commissioner of Customs that the good is--
            (1) for use by the agency outside the United States;
            (2) not mined, produced, or manufactured in the United 
        States--
                    (A) in sufficient and reasonably available 
                commercial quantities, or
                    (B) at a level of quality considered satisfactory 
                by the agency; or
            (3) required for national security purposes.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL HEALTH CARE TRUST FUND.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established within the Treasury of the 
United States a trust fund to be known as the Trust Fund (hereinafter 
in this section referred to as the National Health Care Trust Fund), 
consisting of such amounts as may be transferred to the Trust Fund as 
provided in this section.
    (b) Transfer.--(1) The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to 
the Trust Fund out of the general fund of the Treasury of the United 
States amounts determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be 
equivalent to the amounts received into such general fund that are 
attributable to the duty imposed by section 1(a).
    (2) The amounts which are required to be transferred under 
paragraph (1) shall be transferred at least quarterly from the general 
fund of the Treasury of the United States to the Trust Fund on the 
basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts 
referred to in paragraph (1) that are received into the Treasury. 
Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently to the 
extent prior estimates were in excess of, or less than, the amounts 
required to be transferred.
    (c) Use of Fund Amounts.--Amounts in the Trust Fund shall only be 
available as provided in appropriation Acts for expenditures required 
to carry out national health care insurance programs.

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