FILE h205.ih
          HR 205 IH
          105th CONGRESS
          1st Session
          To  provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust
          Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust
          Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included 
          in the totals of the budget of the United States Government as
          submitted by the President or the congressional budget.
                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                     January 7, 1997
          Mr. KIM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
              Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on
              Transportation and Infrastructure, 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
                                         A BILL
          To  provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust
          Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways Trust
          Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund shall not be included 
          in the totals of the budget of the United States Government as
          submitted by the President or the congressional budget.
           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 `Infrastructure Protection Act of
          1997'.
          SEC. 2. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF TRUST FUND OPERATIONS.
            (a) IN GENERAL- The receipts and disbursements of the Highway
          Trust Fund, the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, the Inland Waterways
          Trust Fund, and the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund allocable to the
          transportation-related operations of each such Trust Fund--
                (1) shall not be included in the totals of--
                    (A) the budget of the United States Government as
                  submitted by the President, or
                    (B) the congressional budget, and
                (2) shall be exempt from any general budget limitation 
              imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending (budget
              outlays) of the United States Government.
            (b) TRANSPORTATION-RELATED OPERATIONS- For purposes of subsection
          (a), the transportation-related operations--
                (1) of the Highway Trust Fund are the disbursements, and the
              receipts allocable to such disbursements, under--
                    (A) paragraph (1) of section 9503(c) of the Internal
                  Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to expenditures from the
                  Highway Trust Fund for the Federal-aid highway program), and
                    (B) paragraph (3) of section 9503(e) of such Code
                  (relating to expenditures from the Mass Transit Account);
                (2) of the Airport and Airway Trust Fund are the
              disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such 
              disbursements, under paragraph (1) of section 9502(d) of the
              Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to expenditures from 
              the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for the airport and airway
              program);
                (3) of the Inland Waterways Trust Fund are the disbursements,
              and the receipts allocable to such disbursements, under section
              9506(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to the
              expenditures from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund for 
              navigation construction and rehabilitation projects on inland
              waterways); and
                (4) of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund are the
              disbursements, and the receipts allocable to such 
              disbursements, under section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue
              Code of 1986 (relating to the expenditures from the Harbor
              Maintenance Trust Fund for operation and maintenance of those
              portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway operated and maintained 
              by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation and 
              harbors and inland harbors within the United States).
            (c) EFFECTIVE DATE- This section shall apply to fiscal years
          beginning after September 30, 1997.