[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 94 (Thursday, June 7, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3326-S3327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2415. Mr. GARDNER (for himself and Mr. Bennet) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5515, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle F of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1066. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN PAYMENTS FROM CALCULATION FOR 
                   FISCAL YEAR 2019 PILT PAYMENTS.

       (a) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) Covered payment.--The term ``covered payment'' means a 
     payment to a unit of general local government for fiscal year 
     2018 from amounts deposited in the Treasury during the period 
     of time beginning on November 18, 1997, and ending on August 
     7, 2008, from a lease issued under section 7439(b)(1) of 
     title 10, United States Code, and distributed to the unit of 
     general local government in accordance with the Mineral 
     Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.).
       (2) Payment law.--The term ``payment law'' has the meaning 
     given the term in section 6903(a)(1) of title 31, United 
     States Code.
       (3) Unit of general local government.--The term ``unit of 
     general local government'' has the meaning given the term in 
     section 6901 of title 31, United States Code.
       (b) Calculation of Pilt Payment Amount.--Notwithstanding 
     any other provision of law, in calculating the amount of a

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     payment to be made to a unit of general local government for 
     fiscal year 2019 under chapter 69 of title 31, United States 
     Code, the Secretary of the Interior shall not consider a 
     covered payment to be an amount received by the unit of 
     general local government in the prior fiscal year under a 
     payment law for purposes of section 6903(b)(1)(A) of that 
     title.
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