S-2489 : Still Just a Bill


American Jobs for American Infrastructure Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to appropriate to the Highway Account and Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY2014-FY2018 amounts necessary to ensure that the balance of each Account for any quarter is not less than specified levels.

Declares the sense of Congress that Congress should provide annual inflation increases for the Federal Lands Access Program, the Federal Lands Transportation Program, and the Tribal Transportation Program in the next Surface Transportation reauthorization.

Establishes in the Treasury a Reclamation Water Infrastructure Fund, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior and used for: (1) rural water projects; (2) deferred maintenance of certain Indian irrigation projects; and (3) construction, planning, and design of projects to settle Indian reserved water rights.

Establishes in the Treasury an Energy Upgrade and Retrofit Infrastructure Fund, to be administered by the Secretary of Energy (DOE) and used to: (1) support novel and innovative technologies to capture or prevent carbon dioxide emissions, as well as enable the beneficial use and long-term storage of carbon dioxide; and (2) fund certain commercial-scale, coal-fired electric generation units.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make a special rule to prohibit income deductions allocated to deferred foreign income from offsetting U.S. source income.

Requires foreign-related deductions to be allocated to currently-taxed foreign income in the same proportion which currently-taxed foreign income bears to the sum of currently-taxed foreign income and deferred foreign income.

Revises rules related to inverted domestic corporations (which used to be incorporated in the United States, or used to be a partnership in the United States, but now are incorporated in a foreign country, or are subsidiaries whose parent corporations are incorporated in a foreign country).

Treats as an inverted domestic corporation, for income tax purposes, any foreign corporation (entity) which after May 8, 2014, completes the direct or indirect acquisition of substantially all of the properties or assets of a domestic corporation, and after the acquisition either: (1) more than 50% (currently, in different specified circumstances, 60% or 80%) of the entity's stock is held by former shareholders of the domestic corporation by reason of holding stock in that domestic corporation; or (2) the management and control of the expanded affiliated group which includes the entity occurs, directly or indirectly, primarily within the United States, and the expanded affiliated group has significant domestic business activities. Applies similar rules to an entity's acquisition of a domestic partnership.

Dedicates to deficit reduction $1 billion of any increase in revenue to the Treasury by reason of this Act.

Action Timeline

Action DateTypeTextSource
2014-06-18IntroReferralRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.Senate
2014-06-18IntroReferralIntroduced in SenateLibrary of Congress

Sponsor :

John E. Walsh [D] (MT)
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Policy Area :

Economics and Public Finance
Related Subjects
  • Administrative law and regulatory procedures
  • Budget deficits and national debt
  • Budget process
  • Climate change and greenhouse gases
  • Coal
  • Congressional oversight
  • Corporate finance and management
  • Electric power generation and transmission
  • Environmental technology
  • Executive agency funding and structure
  • Foreign and international corporations
  • Government trust funds
  • Income tax rates
  • Indian lands and resources rights
  • Inflation and prices
  • Infrastructure development
  • Public transit
  • Roads and highways
  • Rural conditions and development
  • Taxation of foreign income
  • Transportation programs funding
  • Water resources funding
  • Water use and supply
Related Geographic Entities
Related Organizations
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of the Interior
  • Department of the Treasury

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