Infrastructure Protection Act of 1989

Infrastructure Protection Act of 1989 - Prohibits the receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund (for both the Federal aid highway program and the Mass Transit Account), the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and the Inland Waterways Trust Fund which are allocable to the transportation-related operations of such Funds from being included in either the Federal budget as submitted by the President or in the congressional budget.

Exempts such Trust Funds from any general statutory budget limitation.

 
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HR 286 IH
101st CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 286
To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund, the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and the Inland Waterways 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 3, 1989
Mr. MCEWEN introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Public Works and Transportation and Government Operations
A BILL
To provide that receipts and disbursements of the Highway Trust Fund, the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund, and the Inland Waterways 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 1989'.
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, and the Inland Waterways 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); and
  (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).
  (c) EFFECTIVE DATE- This section shall apply to fiscal years beginning
  after September 30, 1989.