[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 118 (Sunday, July 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S5720]
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SA 2368. Mr. CORNYN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2266 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill H.R. 22, to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt employees with health
coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration from being taken
into account for purposes of determining the employers to which the
employer mandate applies under the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
In section 12204 (relating to highway trust fund
transparency and accountability), strike the section heading
and designation and all that follows through the end of
paragraph (2) of section 104(g) of title 23, United States
Code (as added by section 12204) and insert the following:
SEC. 12204. HIGHWAY TRUST FUND AND HIGHWAY INVESTMENT TREND
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
(a) In General.--Section 104 of title 23, United States
Code is amended by striking subsection (g) and inserting the
following:
``(g) Report on State Highway Expenditure Trends.--Not
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the DRIVE
Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall use existing
data sources to prepare and submit to Congress a report that
describes--
``(1) State government expenditures on highways, by State,
for the most recent 10-year period; and
``(2) for each State, the amount, expressed in a
percentage, of all expenditures for highways in the State for
the most recent 10-year period that were funded by the State
government.
``(h) Highway Trust Fund Transparency and Accountability
Report.--
``(1) Publicly available report.--Not later than 180 days
after the date of enactment of the DRIVE Act and quarterly
thereafter, the Secretary shall compile data in accordance
with this subsection on the use of Federal-aid highway
program funds made available under this title.
``(2) Requirements.--The Secretary shall ensure that the
reports required under subsection (g) and this subsection are
made available in a user-friendly manner on the public
website of the Department of Transportation and can be
searched and downloaded by users of the website.
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