[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 564 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 564

 To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund, 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and 
 the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included in the totals 
   of the budget of the United States Government as submitted by the 
                 President or the congressional budget.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 18, 1995

 Mr. Kim (for himself and Mr. Shuster) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight 
       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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund, 
the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, and 
 the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included in the totals 
   of the budget of the United States Government as submitted by the 
                 President or the congressional budget.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Infrastructure Protection Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPERATIONS.

    (a) In General.--The receipts and disbursements of the Highway 
Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways 
Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund allocable to the 
transportation-related operations of each such Trust Fund--
            (1) shall not be included in the totals of--
                    (A) the budget of the United States Government as 
                submitted by the President, or
                    (B) the congressional budget, and
            (2) shall be exempt from any general budget limitation 
        imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending (budget 
        outlays) of the United States Government.
    (b) Transportation-Related Operations.--For purposes of subsection 
(a), the transportation-related operations--
            (1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the disbursements, and 
        the receipts allocable to such disbursements, under--
                    (A) paragraph (1) of section 9503(c) of the 
                Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to expenditures 
                from the Highway Trust Fund for the Federal-aid highway 
                program), and
                    (B) paragraph (3) of section 9503(e) of such Code 
                (relating to expenditures from the Mass Transit 
                Account);
            (2) of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund are the 
        disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such 
        disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section 9502(d) of the 
        Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to expenditures from 
        the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for the airport and airway 
        program);
            (3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are the 
        disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such 
        disbursements, under section 9506(c) of the Internal Revenue 
        Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures from the Inland 
        Waterways Trust Fund for navigation construction and 
        rehabilitation projects on inland waterways); and
            (4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are the 
        disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such 
        disbursements, under section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue 
        Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures from the Harbor 
        Maintenance Trust Fund for operation and maintenance of those 
        portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained 
        by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and 
        harbors and inland harbors within the United States).
    (c) Effective Date.--This section shall apply to fiscal years 
beginning after September 30, 1995.
                                 <all>