[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 138 (Tuesday, August 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S5742]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2339. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema 
(for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms. 
Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the 
bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway 
safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        On page 1297, strike lines 1 through 3 and insert the 
     following:
       ``(e) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts made available by 
     or appropriated under this section shall remain available 
     until expended.
       ``(f) Reductions in Transit Funding.--
       ``(1) Required reductions.--
       ``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, if the Secretary determines during a fiscal year that, 
     as compared to the previous fiscal year, a State or local 
     governmental authority that receives funding under this 
     chapter from the Secretary has reduced spending on public 
     safety or law enforcement activities, the Secretary shall 
     reduce the amount of the unobligated funding received by the 
     State or local governmental authority from amounts made 
     available under subsection (a) by a percentage equal to the 
     percentage by which the State or local governmental authority 
     reduced the spending on public safety and law enforcement 
     activities.
       ``(B) Rollover.--If there are insufficient unobligated 
     amounts described in subparagraph (A) to make the full 
     reduction required under that paragraph during a fiscal year, 
     the Secretary shall, notwithstanding any other provision of 
     law, reduce the amounts received by the State or local 
     governmental authority from amounts made available under 
     subsection (a) during the succeeding fiscal year in an amount 
     necessary to make the full reduction required under that 
     subparagraph for the previous fiscal year.
       ``(2) Use of withheld funds.--Amounts not made available to 
     a State or local governmental authority as a result of a 
     reduction under paragraph (1) shall be deposited in the 
     Treasury and used for Federal budget deficit reduction or, if 
     there is no Federal budget deficit, for reducing the Federal 
     debt in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury 
     considers appropriate.''.
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