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Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017

Introduced: March 22, 2017 See on congress.gov
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Apr 11, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.
Mar 24, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment.
Mar 23, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
Mar 22, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
Mar 22, 2017
Introduced in House
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Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; (2) modify the definition of subpart F income (i.e., income of a controlled foreign corporation earned outside the United States that is not tax-deferred) to include income of a controlled foreign corporation derived from a foreign country; and (3) transfer to the fund revenues from the newly included subpart F income.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture must allocate funds from the trust fund to specified clean water programs, drinking water programs, and water well systems.

The bill amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the EPA to make grants for providing technical assistance concerning water and sanitation infrastructure and drinking water systems to rural and small municipalities and tribal governments. The EPA must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields.

The bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas.

The bill revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF.

The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the EPA to make grants to local educational agencies for: (1) infrastructure to ensure that drinking water in schools is lead free, and (2) testing drinking water in schools for lead.

What's happening now April 11, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 5609 Related bill Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 7
 Cosponsors 27
All 27 Democratic 25
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Carbajal, Salud O.
California · Oct 24, 2017
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Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
Florida · Oct 23, 2017
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Jeffries, Hakeem S.
New York · Jul 26, 2017
 D
Suozzi, Thomas R.
New York · Jul 17, 2017
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Meng, Grace
New York · Jul 10, 2017
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Espaillat, Adriano
New York · Jun 12, 2017
CROWLEY, JOSEPH
· Jun 2, 2017
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Velázquez, Nydia M.
New York · Jun 2, 2017
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Himes, James A.
Connecticut · May 16, 2017
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Apr 6, 2017
 D
Schneider, Bradley Scott
Illinois · Apr 6, 2017
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Clarke, Yvette D.
New York · Mar 22, 2017
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Evans, Dwight
Pennsylvania · Mar 22, 2017
 D
Huffman, Jared
California · Mar 22, 2017
 D
Jayapal, Pramila
Washington · Mar 22, 2017
 D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Mar 22, 2017
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Luján, Ben Ray
New Mexico · Mar 22, 2017
Lujan Grisham, Michelle
· Mar 22, 2017
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McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Mar 22, 2017
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Mar 22, 2017
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Moore, Gwen
Wisconsin · Mar 22, 2017
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Mar 22, 2017
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Mar 22, 2017
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Pocan, Mark
Wisconsin · Mar 22, 2017
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Raskin, Jamie
Maryland · Mar 22, 2017
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Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Mar 22, 2017
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Welch, Peter
Vermont · Mar 22, 2017
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1673: Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1673/
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