# 114-hr-2971: Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act

114-hr-2971, Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act, is a 114th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7] (R-SC); status Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (as of 2025-11-18).

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## Facts
- Bill: 114-hr-2971
- Congress: 114
- Title: Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act
- Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- Introduced: 2015-07-08
- Sponsor: Rep. Rice, Tom [R-SC-7] (R-SC)
- Cosponsors: 0
- Policy area: Taxation
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-11-18

## Summary

Highway Trust Fund Certainty Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the current excise tax rates on gasoline and diesel fuel or kerosene and special fuels and to repeal the reversion of increased fuel tax rates to 4.3 cents per gallon after September 30, 2016, (2) make permanent the excise tax on certain alcohol fuels and fuels used in certain buses, (3) allow U.S. citizens a new tax credit after 2015 for the lesser of 3.1% of earned income or $133, and (4) allow additional appropriations to the Highway and Mass Transit Accounts of the Highway Trust Fund and provide for repayments from such Fund to the general fund of the Treasury for amounts advanced to such Fund.

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## Sources
- [114-hr-2971 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2971)

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- [114-hr-6171: To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to eliminate the authority of the S…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6171)
- [114-hr-6100: Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-6100)
- [114-hr-5945: Ready to Work Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-5945)
- [114-hr-5879: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the credit for production…](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-5879)
- [114-hr-5878: PAVE Act of 2016](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-5878)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/114-hr-2971 (as of 2025-11-18).