[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5551 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5551

  To require advance appropriations for the expenditure of any funds 
           collected by the Environmental Protection Agency.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2016

Mr. Smith of Missouri introduced the following bill; which was referred 
    to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the 
   Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, and 
    Science, Space, and Technology, 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 require advance appropriations for the expenditure of any funds 
           collected by the Environmental Protection Agency.

    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 ``End EPA Rogue Spending Act''.

SEC. 2. EPA COLLECTIONS SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATIONS.

    Any fees collected by the Environmental Protection Agency through 
fines, fees, penalties, settlement agreements, or otherwise shall, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, be deposited in the general 
fund of the Treasury and may be expended by the Environmental 
Protection Agency only to the extent provided in advance by an 
appropriations Act.
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