[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1487 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1487

   To provide off-budget treatment for one-half of the receipts and 
 disbursements of the land and water conservation fund, and to provide 
   that the amount appropriated from the fund for a fiscal year for 
Federal purposes may not exceed the amount appropriated for that fiscal 
    year for financial assistance to the States for State purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 30, 1997

  Mr. Campbell (for himself, Mr. Fawell, Mr. Farr of California, Ms. 
     Woolsey, Mr. Stark, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, and Mr. Peterson of 
  Minnesota) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Resources, 
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

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide off-budget treatment for one-half of the receipts and 
 disbursements of the land and water conservation fund, and to provide 
   that the amount appropriated from the fund for a fiscal year for 
Federal purposes may not exceed the amount appropriated for that fiscal 
    year for financial assistance to the States for State purposes.

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

SECTION 1. OFF-BUDGET TREATMENT FOR ONE-HALF OF THE RECEIPTS AND 
              DISBURSEMENTS OF THE LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law except the Line Item 
Veto Act of 1996, one-half of the receipts and disbursements of the 
land and water conservation fund--
            (1) shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, 
        receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of--
                    (A) the budget of the United States Government as 
                submitted by the President,
                    (B) the congressional budget (including allocations 
                of budget authority and outlays provided therein), or
                    (C) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
                Control Act of 1985; 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.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ANNUAL USE OF LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
              FOR FEDERAL PURPOSES.

    Section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (16 U.S.C. 
460l-9) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Limitation on Appropriations.--The amount appropriated from 
the fund for a fiscal year for Federal purposes under this or any other 
Federal law may not exceed the amount appropriated for that fiscal year 
for financial assistance to the States for State purposes under section 
6.''.
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