[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2944 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2944

 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the TIGER 
          discretionary grant program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2013

   Mr. Larsen of Washington introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the 
Committee on the Budget, 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


 
 Making supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for the TIGER 
          discretionary grant program, 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 ``Transportation Investment Generating 
Economic Recovery for Cities Underfunded Because of Size Act of 2013'' 
or the ``TIGER CUBS Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR TIGER GRANTS.

    That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for fiscal year 2014:

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                  national infrastructure investments

    For an additional amount for ``National Infrastructure 
Investments'' in accordance with the provisions under this heading in 
title I of division C of Public Law 112-55, $500,000,000: Provided, 
That the amount under this heading shall remain available until 
September 30, 2015: Provided further, That not less than $100,000,000 
of the funds provided under this heading shall be for projects located 
in cities with populations between 10,000 and 50,000: Provided further, 
That for a project described in the preceding proviso, the minimum 
grant amount shall be $2,000,000, and the Secretary of Transportation 
may provide a Federal share of costs in excess of 80 percent: Provided 
further, That the amount under this heading is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
except that such amount shall be available only if the President 
subsequently so designates such amount and transmits such designation 
to the Congress.
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