RAMP Act

Realize America's Maritime Promise Act or the RAMP Act - Requires the total budget resources for expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for harbor maintenance programs to equal the level of receipts plus interest credited to such Fund for that fiscal year. Limits the use of such resources to such programs only.

Declares that it shall be out of order in the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause total budget resources for the Fund in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs to be less than the level of receipts plus interest credited to the Fund for that fiscal year.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 104 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 104

 To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
                    are used for harbor maintenance.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 2011

 Mr. Boustany (for himself, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Mr. 
Simpson, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Paul, Mr. Scalise, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. McMorris 
  Rodgers, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Olson, Ms. Richardson, Mr. Alexander, Mr. 
 Lynch, Mrs. Miller of Michigan, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. Cummings, Ms. 
Sutton, Mr. Capuano, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Sires, Mr. Thompson of California, 
     Ms. Fudge, Mr. Bonner, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Stark, and Ms. Lee of 
 California) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the 
 Committee on Rules, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that amounts credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund 
                    are used for harbor maintenance.

    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 ``Realize America's Maritime Promise 
Act'' or the ``RAMP Act''.

SEC. 2. FUNDING FOR HARBOR MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS.

    (a) Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Guarantee.--
            (1) In general.--The total budget resources made available 
        from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund each fiscal year 
        pursuant to section 9505(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
        1986 (relating to expenditures from the Harbor Maintenance 
        Trust Fund) shall be equal to the level of receipts plus 
        interest credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for that 
        fiscal year. Such amounts may be used only for harbor 
        maintenance programs described in section 9505(c) of such Code.
            (2) Guarantee.--No funds may be appropriated for harbor 
        maintenance programs described in such section unless the 
        amount described in paragraph (1) has been provided.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Total budget resources.--The term ``total budget 
        resources'' means the total amount made available by 
        appropriations Acts from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund for 
        a fiscal year for making expenditures under section 9505(c) of 
        the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
            (2) Level of receipts plus interest.--The term ``level of 
        receipts plus interest'' means the level of taxes and interest 
        credited to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund under section 
        9505 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for a fiscal year as 
        set forth in the President's budget baseline projection as 
        defined in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
        Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99-177) for that fiscal 
        year submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
        States Code.
    (c) Enforcement of Guarantees.--It shall not be in order in the 
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint 
resolution, amendment, motion, or conference report that would cause 
total budget resources in a fiscal year for harbor maintenance programs 
described in subsection (b)(1) for such fiscal year to be less than the 
amount required by subsection (a)(1) for such fiscal year.
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