![handle is hein.congrec/cbo11246 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
COST ESTIMATE
August 23, 2013
H.R. 2463
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 3], 2013
CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 2463 could affect direct spending; therefore, pay-as-
you-go procedures apply. However, CBO estimates that any such effects would be
minimal over the 2014-2023 period. We also estimate that implementing the legislation
would have no significant impact on discretionary spending. Enacting H.R. 2463 would
not affect revenues.
H.R. 2463 would allow states to use grants awarded under the Pittman-Robertson
Wildlife Restoration Act to fund up to 90 percent of the cost of building or operating
public target ranges. Under that act, half of all federal excise taxes collected on pistols,
revolvers, bows, arrows, and archery accessories are apportioned to states as grants for
hunter education programs and for the construction and development of target ranges.
Funds awarded under that act currently can be used to cover 75 percent of the costs of
such programs. Because the provision of the bill authorizing federal funds to be used for
up to 90 percent of such costs would not affect the total amount of Pittman-Robertson
funds that could be spent, CBO estimates that enacting the provision would have no
significant effect on the federal budget.
The bill also would allow states to retain their shares of Pittman-Robertson funds for up
to five years to acquire or construct target ranges. After five years those funds would be
reapportioned for other uses by the Secretary of the Interior. Because, under current law,
any such funds that are not spent in two years are reapportioned and spent on other
activities, CBO estimates that implementing this provision would have no significant
effect on the federal budget.
Finally, H.R. 2463 would limit the federal government's liability for certain incidents that
occur on target ranges that are either constructed with Pittman-Robertson funds or located
on federal lands. Federal payments resulting from such lawsuits appear to be minimal,
and we estimate that this provision would have a minor effect on the federal budget over
the 20 14-2023 period.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrec/cbo11246&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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