A bill to amend title 23, United States Code, to modify the minimum allocation formula under the Federal-aid highway program, to provide reimbursement to each State with respect to which the highway users in the State paid into the Highway Trust Fund an amount in excess of the amount received by the State from the Highway Trust Fund, and for other purposes.
Surface Transportation Equity Act of 1996 - Amends Federal-aid highway program provisions to direct the Secretary of Transportation to: (1) provide reimbursement to each State the highway users of which paid into the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) an amount in excess of the amount received by the State from the HTF since 1957; and (2) allocate among the States amounts sufficient to ensure that a State's share of fiscal year apportionments and prior fiscal year allocations from the HTF is not less than the estimated tax payments into the HTF attributable to highway users in the State for the fiscal year.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9561)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
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