[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2123 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2123

 To require the calculation of Federal-aid highway apportionments and 
   allocations for fiscal year 1997 to be determined so that States 
 experience no net effect from a credit to the Highway Trust Fund made 
in correction of an accounting error made in fiscal year 1994, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 25, 1996

   Mr. Baucus (for himself, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
   Domenici, Mr. Pressler, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Gregg, Mrs. 
   Kassebaum, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, Mr. 
D'Amato, Mrs. Frahm, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Moynihan, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Dodd, 
Mr. Dorgan, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Chafee, and Mr. Lautenberg) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require the calculation of Federal-aid highway apportionments and 
   allocations for fiscal year 1997 to be determined so that States 
 experience no net effect from a credit to the Highway Trust Fund made 
in correction of an accounting error made in fiscal year 1994, and for 
                            other purposes.

    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 ``Highway Funding Fairness Act of 
1996.''

SEC. 2. CALCULATION OF FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY APPORTIONMENTS AND 
              ALLOCATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), for fiscal 
year 1997, the Secretary of Transportation shall determine the Federal-
aid highway apportionments and allocations to a State without regard to 
the approximately $1,596,000,000 credit to the Highway Trust Fund 
(other than the Mass Transit Account) of estimated taxes paid by States 
that was made by the Secretary of the Treasury for fiscal year 1995 in 
correction of an accounting error made in fiscal year 1994.
    (b) Adjustments for Effects in 1996.--The Secretary of 
Transportation shall, for each State--
            (1) determine whether the State would have been apportioned 
        and allocated an increased or decreased amount for Federal-aid 
        highways for fiscal year 1996 if the accounting error referred 
        to in subsection (a) had not been made (which determination 
        shall take into account the effects of section 1003(c) of the 
        Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 
        (Public Law 102-240; 105 Stat. 1921)); and
            (2) after apportionments and allocations are determined in 
        accordance with subsection (a)--
                    (A) adjust the amount apportioned and allocated to 
                the State for Federal-aid highways for fiscal year 1997 
                by the amount of the increase or decrease; and
                    (B) adjust accordingly the obligation limitation 
                for Federal-aid highways distributed to the State under 
                section 310 of the Department of Transportation and 
                Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997.
    (c) No Effect on  1996 Distributions.--Nothing in this section 
shall affect any apportionment, allocation, or distribution of 
obligation limitation, or reduction thereof, to a State for Federal-aid 
highways for fiscal year 1996.
    (d) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect on September 
30, 1996.
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