[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 556 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 556

To provide for the allocation of funds from the Mass Transit Account of 
            the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 10, 1997

 Mr. Inhoffe (for himself, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Helms, Mr. Cochran, Mr. 
  Nickles, and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was 
read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the allocation of funds from the Mass Transit Account of 
            the Highway Trust Fund, 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. ALLOCATION OF MASS TRANSIT ACCOUNT FUNDS.

    (a) Minimum Allocation.--The Secretary of Transportation shall take 
such actions as may be necessary to ensure that, in each fiscal year, 
each State's percentage of the total apportionments to all States from 
the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund established by 
section 9503 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is not less than 80 
percent of the State's estimated tax payment attributable to highway 
users in the State paid into that Account in the most recent year for 
which data are available.
    (b) Applicability.--Subsection (a) does not apply to any State 
whose contribution to the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust 
Fund established by section 9503 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
in the applicable fiscal year is greater than or equal to $50,000,000.
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