CBA, as Enacted (Contents)

Congressional Budget Act of 1974

Section 504, as Enacted

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Conversion of authorizations of appropriations

Sec. 504. Any law providing for an authorization of appropriations commencing on July 1 of a year shall, if that year is any year after 1975, be considered as meaning October 1 of that year. Any law providing for an authorization of appropriations ending on June 30 of a year shall, if that year is any year after 1976, be considered as meaning September ‘30 of that year. Any law providing for an authorization of appropriations for the fiscal year 1977 or any fiscal year thereafter shall be construed as referring to that fiscal year ending on September 30 of the calendar year having the same calendar year number as the fiscal year number.

 

 

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Counsel Notes
JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

The managers on the part of the House and the Senate of the conference of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 7130) issued an explanatory statement of the legislation. This was included in a House Budget Committee print in 1975 after the bill’s enactment. It included the following description of this section:

Section 504. Conversion of Authorization

The House bill provided for the conversion of all laws to the new fiscal year. The Senate amendment had a conversion provision for authorizing legislation The conference substitute provides for the automatic conversion of July 1 starting dates and June 30 closing dates for fiscal years to October 1 and September 30, respectively. This conversion would be timed to the introduction of the new fiscal calendar in 1976, and it would apply only to authorizing legislation.

[Joint Explanatory Statement on the Committee of Conference on H.R. 7130; (Committee Print), Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, 93d Congress, 2d Session, Washington D.C. 1975.]

CURRENT SECTION

Section 504. Budget Treatment. (Enacted section replaced by FCRA 1990).

Classification to the U.S. Code

This section was formerly classified to 31 U.S.C. 1020a.


Legislative History Notes
Public Laws

Pub. L. 93–344, §504, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 322. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 enacted this section into law. 

Revision of title 31 of the u.s. code

Most of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was classified to Title 31 of the U.S. Code but has since been transferred either to title 2 (The Congress) or to a revised Title 31. See the following for more information: 

 

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