A bill to amend the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968, and for other purposes.
Latest action. Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #750 (139-247).
(Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #750 (139-247)) Amends the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to sublet a portion of the Union Station Concourse to the Secretary of Transportation for operation as a rail passenger terminal. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to construct a parking structure for buses and 1400 cars. Directs the Washington Terminal Company to cease construction of the new railroad passenger facility beneath the parking structure. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to use funds (to be deposited into a special account for the National Park Service) received from operating the National Visitor Center to pay the costs of such Center. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation: (1) to use funds received through operation of the sublet space to pay the costs of such space; and (2) to spend appropriated funds for rail passenger operations without regard to the matching funds requirement of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976. Stipulates that every contract for the facility to be bid competitively on a fixed-price basis. Authorizes the Architect of the Capitol to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of the Interior to furnish steam from the Capitol Powerplant to Union Station. Authorizes the Secretary to construct connections to such Powerplant. Increases the authorization of appropriation for adequate visitor facilities. Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for the construction or alteration of any facility authorized by the National Visitor Center Facilities Act of 1968, until final plans for such construction or alteration have been submitted to Congress, and Congress does not disapprove such plans within a 30 day period after their submission.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Failed of passage in House" stage on December 19, 1979. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on December 19, 1979: Measure failed of passage in House, roll call #750 (139-247).
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
ELLIOTT LEVITAS (D-GA) introduced it on May 3, 1979, and 5 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 2 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
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Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · December 19, 1979
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached