[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1657 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1657

 To amend the provisions of law relating to sport fish restoration and 
          recreational boating safety, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2011

Mr. Rockefeller introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the provisions of law relating to sport fish restoration and 
          recreational boating safety, 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 ``Sport Fish Restoration and 
Recreational Boating Safety Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT OF FEDERAL AID IN FISH RESTORATION ACT.

    Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an 
amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal 
of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to 
be made to a section or other provision of the Federal Aid in Fish 
Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 777 et seq.).

SEC. 3. DIVISION OF ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    Section 4 (16 U.S.C. 777c) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``of fiscal years 2006 
        through 2011,'' and inserting ``fiscal year through 2017,'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``of fiscal 
                years 2006 through 2011,'' and inserting ``fiscal year 
                through 2017,'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (B)--
                            (i) in clause (i), by striking ``each of 
                        fiscal years 2001 and 2002, $9,000,000;'' and 
                        inserting ``fiscal year 2012, $11,481,000;'';
                            (ii) in clause (ii), by striking ``2003, 
                        $8,212,000;'' and inserting ``2013, 
                        $11,870,000;''; and
                            (iii) in clause (iii), by striking ``2004'' 
                        and inserting ``2014''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(C) Set-aside for boating safety.--
                            ``(i) From the annual appropriation made in 
                        accordance with section 3, for each fiscal year 
                        through 2017, the Secretary shall transfer to 
                        the Secretary of the department in which the 
                        Coast Guard is operating--
                                    ``(I) $6,500,000 for the purposes 
                                set forth in section 13107(c) of title 
                                46, United States Code;
                                    ``(II) $200,000 to fund the 
                                National Boating Safety Advisory 
                                Council established under section 13110 
                                of Title 46, United States Code; and
                                    ``(III) not less than $6,000,000 
                                for national boating safety activities 
                                of national nonprofit public service 
                                organizations, and such sums made 
                                available for allocation and 
                                distribution shall remain available 
                                until expended.
                            ``(ii) The amounts specified in clause (i) 
                        for a fiscal year may not be included in the 
                        amount of the annual appropriation distributed 
                        under subsection (a) for the fiscal year.'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2)(B), by striking ``subsection (e)'' 
        and inserting ``subsection (c)''; and
            (4) in subsection (e)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``those 
                subsections'' and inserting ``those paragraphs'';
                    (B) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:
            ``(2) Maximum amount.--For fiscal year 2012, the Secretary 
        of the Interior may use not more than $1,200,000 in accordance 
        with paragraph (1). For each fiscal year thereafter, the 
        maximum amount that the Secretary of the Interior may use in 
        accordance with paragraph (1) shall be determined pursuant to 
        paragraph (3).''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Annual adjusted maximum amount.--The maximum amount 
        referred to in paragraph 2 for fiscal year 2013 and each fiscal 
        year thereafter shall be the sum of--
                    ``(A) the available maximum amount for the 
                preceding fiscal year; and
                    ``(B) the amount determined by multiplying--
                            ``(i) the available maximum amount for the 
                        preceding fiscal year; and
                            ``(ii) the change, relative to the 
                        preceding fiscal year, in the Consumer Price 
                        Index for All Urban Consumers published by the 
                        Department of Labor.''.

SEC. 4. EXTENSION OF EXCEPTION TO LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS TO FUND.

    Section 9504(d)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended 
by striking ``2011,'' and inserting ``2017,''.

SEC. 5. RECREATIONAL BOATING SAFETY.

    Section 13107 of title 46, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``two'' and inserting 
        ``1.5''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``subsection (a)(2)'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (b)'';
                    (B) by striking ``(16 U.S.C. 777c(a)(2)),'' and 
                inserting ``(16 U.S.C. 777c(b)),''; and
                    (C) by striking ``$5,500,000'' and inserting 
                ``$6,500,000''.
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