US Congress House Bill 1596 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16)
Status: Introduced on April 15 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-04-25 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Superfund Reinvestment Act - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to authorize the use of amounts in the Hazardous Substance Superfund for environmental cleanup costs authorized by such Act. Provides that receipts and disbursements of the Hazardous Substance Superfund: (1) shall not be counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus, for purposes of the President's budget, the congressional budget, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, or the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010; (2) shall be exempt from any general budget limitations; and (3) shall be available only for the purposes specified in CERCLA. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate until December 31, 2018, the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax and extend the borrowing authority of the Superfund through 2021.

Superfund Reinvestment Act

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]	Rep. Lois Capps [D-CA]	Rep. Russ Carnahan [D-MO]
Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D-NY]
Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]	Rep. Rush Holt [D-NJ]	Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Frank Pallone [D-NJ]	Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. David Wu [D-OR]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-04-25	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy.
2011-04-18	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Budget
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Energy and Commerce
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Transportation and Infrastructure
2011-04-15	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2011-04-15	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Energy and Commerce, and the Budget, 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.
2011-04-15	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E761)

HB1634 (Related) 2011-04-15 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
SB461 (Related) 2011-03-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
SB641 (Related) 2012-07-31 - Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 481.
HB3638 (Related) 2012-02-09 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/1596/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/112/bills/hr1596/BILLS-112hr1596ih.pdf