1. Short title; table of contents (a) In general This Act may be cited as the National Infrastructure Bank Act of 2023 . (b) Table of contents The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Title I—Revenue provisions Sec. 101. Treatment of National Infrastructure Bank as a Government corporation exempt from tax. Sec. 102. Treatment of contributions to the National Infrastructure Bank as charitable contributions. Sec. 103. Preferred dividends of National Infrastructure Bank excludible from gross income. Title II—Establishment of National Infrastructure Bank Sec. 201. Definitions. Sec. 202. Establishment of National Infrastructure Bank. Sec. 203. Purposes and authorizations. Sec. 204. Formation of regional economic accelerator planning groups. Sec. 205. Eligibility criteria for assistance from the bank. Sec. 206. Board of Directors. Sec. 207. Powers and limitations of the Board. Sec. 208. Executive committee. Sec. 209. Risk management committee. Sec. 210. Audit committee. Sec. 211. Personnel. Sec. 212. Special Inspector General for the National Infrastructure Bank. Sec. 213. Status and applicability of certain Federal and State laws. Sec. 214. Exemption from certain laws. Sec. 215. Relations with local financial institutions. Sec. 216. Audits; reports to President and Congress. Sec. 217. Budgetary effects. Sec. 218. Authorization of appropriations. 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Throughout our Nation’s history, national banks have played a crucial role in financing most of our Nation’s public infrastructure. The largest banks included: The First (1791–1811) and Second (1816–1836) Banks of the United States, President Lincoln’s national banking system, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932–1957). (2) These national banks were enacted with broad bi-partisan support, and financed the construction of: roads, turnpikes, bridges, and canals; the Transcontinental Railroad; the Hoover Dam