S.Amdt. 2339

SA 2339. Mr. SCOTT of Florida submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed to amendment SA 2137 proposed by Mr. Schumer (for Ms. Sinema
(for herself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Cassidy, Mrs. Shaheen, Ms.
Collins, Mr. Tester, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Warner, and Mr. Romney)) to the
bill H.R. 3684, to authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway
safety programs, and transit programs, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

On page 1297, strike lines 1 through 3 and insert the
following:
``(e) Availability of Amounts.--Amounts made available by
or appropriated under this section shall remain available
until expended.
``(f) Reductions in Transit Funding.--
``(1) Required reductions.--
``(A) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, if the Secretary determines during a fiscal year that,
as compared to the previous fiscal year, a State or local
governmental authority that receives funding under this
chapter from the Secretary has reduced spending on public
safety or law enforcement activities, the Secretary shall
reduce the amount of the unobligated funding received by the
State or local governmental authority from amounts made
available under subsection (a) by a percentage equal to the
percentage by which the State or local governmental authority
reduced the spending on public safety and law enforcement
activities.
``(B) Rollover.--If there are insufficient unobligated
amounts described in subparagraph (A) to make the full
reduction required under that paragraph during a fiscal year,
the Secretary shall, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, reduce the amounts received by the State or local
governmental authority from amounts made available under
subsection (a) during the succeeding fiscal year in an amount
necessary to make the full reduction required under that
subparagraph for the previous fiscal year.
``(2) Use of withheld funds.--Amounts not made available to
a State or local governmental authority as a result of a
reduction under paragraph (1) shall be deposited in the
Treasury and used for Federal budget deficit reduction or, if
there is no Federal budget deficit, for reducing the Federal
debt in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury
considers appropriate.''.
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