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Build USA Act
This bill establishes the American Infrastructure Bank as a wholly owned government corporation.
The Bank's Board of Directors has authority, among other operations, to issue public benefit bonds and provide financing to core infrastructure projects from bond proceeds.
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State governments may enter into minimum three-year remittance agreements with the Bank under which:
a state agrees to remit to the Bank at least 60% of the total amount of federal-aid highway activities funds it receives from the federal government in each of the three years,
the Board will issue to the state funds from the Bank equal to 90% of the amount the state remitted to the Bank, and
the state will use those funds to carry out core infrastructure projects.
The Bank may grant a loan to a state or a unit of local government to implement core transportation infrastructure projects.
The deduction from gross income under the Internal Revenue Code for temporary dividends received from a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) decreases from 85% to 81.4% of the cash dividends received by a U.S. corporate shareholder from a CFC during the taxable year. Allowance of the deduction applies, if the taxpayer elects it, to the three-taxable year period beginning with:
the taxpayer's last taxable year which begins before the enactment of this Act, or
the taxpayer's first taxable year which begins during the one-year period beginning on that date of enactment.
People & committees
Sen. Fischer, Deb [R-NE] · R–NE
Legislative record
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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