HOUSE 2440116th CongressReceived in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act

Last Action: 10/29/2019

Actions

2019-10-29Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
2019-10-28Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2019-10-28On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 296 - 109 (Roll no. 585). (text: CR H8479-8480)
2019-10-28Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 296 - 109 (Roll no. 585).(text: CR H8479-8480)
2019-10-28Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8519-8520)
2019-10-28At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
2019-10-28DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2440.
2019-10-28Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H8479-8484)
2019-10-28Mr. DeFazio moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
2019-07-02Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 100.
2019-07-02Committee on the Budget discharged.
2019-07-02Committee on the Budget discharged.
2019-07-02Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 116-136, Part I.
2019-07-02Reported by the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. H. Rept. 116-136, Part I.
2019-05-08Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.

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CRS Summary

As of 2019-10-28 (53)

Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act

This bill provides a discretionary spending limit adjustment for full utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to ensure that funds are used to support navigation and maintain federally authorized harbors.

The bill makes certain amounts in the trust fund available, without appropriation, to pay

100% of the eligible operations and maintenance costs of specified portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes); and
up to 100% of the eligible operations and maintenance costs assigned to commercial navigation of all U.S. harbors and inland harbors.

The discretionary spending adjustment in a given fiscal year may not exceed the amount within the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund on the last day of the fiscal year that is two years prior to such fiscal year.

Cosponsors (20)

SAM GRAVES (R-MO)
GRACE NAPOLITANO (D-CA)
Bruce Westerman (R-AR)
Mike Kelly (R-PA)
Bob Gibbs (R-OH)
Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
Garret Graves (R-LA)
Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon (R-PR)
Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
Sean Maloney (D-NY)
Angie Craig (D-MN)
Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX)
Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA)
Robert Wittman (R-VA)
EARL BLUMENAUER (D-OR)
Rodney Davis (R-IL)
Pete Stauber (R-MN)

Subjects

Appropriations
Budget deficits and national debt
Congressional oversight
Government trust funds
Navigation, waterways, harbors
Sales and excise taxes
Transportation programs funding
User charges and fees
Water resources funding

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