When did President Eisenhower sign the Highway Revenue Act of 1956?
The Highway Revenue Act of 1956 was not a separate piece of legislation. On February 6, 1956, Representative Hale Boggs (D-La.) of the House Ways and Means Committee introduced H.R. 9075, the Highway Revenue Act of 1956. It contained a financing mechanism for the Interstate System based on the concept that all revenue from highway user taxes would be set aside for highway purposes. At the suggestion of Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey during testimony a few days later, Representative Boggs modified the bill to provide the linkage by creating a Highway Trust Fund modeled on the Social Security Trust Fund. The Boggs Bill was submitted to the Committee on Public Works where Representative George H. Fallon (D-Md.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Roads, combined it with his authorizing bill, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. Although congressional action would modify the Highway Revenue Act of 1956 in some ways, it would remain part of the bill the House of Representatives and
