[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 412 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 412

 To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
                    are used for harbor maintenance.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 17, 2011

 Mr. Levin (for himself, Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Vitter, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. 
    Shelby, Ms. Stabenow, Mrs. Boxer, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. Wyden, Mr. 
  Franken, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. 
    Cornyn) 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 ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
                    are used for harbor maintenance.

    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 ``Harbor Maintenance Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR HARBOR MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Guarantee.--
            (1) In general.--The total budget resources made available 
        from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund each fiscal year 
        pursuant to section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 (relating to expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance 
        Trust Fund) shall be equal to the level of receipts plus 
        interest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for that 
        fiscal year. Such amounts may be used only for harbor 
        maintenance programs described in section 9505(c) of such Code.
            (2) Guarantee.--No funds may be appropriated for harbor 
        maintenance programs described in such section unless the 
        amount described in paragraph (1) has been provided.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Total budget resources.--The term ``total budget 
        resources'' means the total amount made available by 
        appropriations Acts from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for 
        a fiscal year for making expenditures under section 9505(c) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
            (2) Level of receipts plus interest.--The term ``level of 
        receipts plus interest'' means the level of taxes and interest 
        credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under section 
        9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for a fiscal year as 
        set forth in the President's budget baseline projection as 
        defined in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
        Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177; 99 Stat. 1092) 
        for that fiscal year submitted pursuant to section 1105 of 
        title 31, United States Code.
    (c) Enforcement of Guarantees.--It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause 
total budget resources in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs 
described in subsection (b)(1) for such fiscal year to be less than the 
amount required by subsection (a)(1) for such fiscal year.
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