BEA 1997 (Contents)

Budget Enforcement Act of 1997

Section 10208

Title X—Budget Enforcement and Process Provisions

Subtitle B—Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985

SEC. 10208. General and special sequestration rules.

(a) Headings.—

(1) Section.—The section heading of section 256 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking “exceptions, limitations, and special rules” and inserting “general and special sequestration rules”.

(2) Table of Contents.—The item relating to section 256 in the table contents set forth in section 250(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows:

“SEC. 256. GENERAL AND SPECIAL SEQUESTRATION RULES.”.

(b) Automatic Spending Increases.—Section 256(a) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking paragraph (1) and redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively.

“(b) Student Loans.—For all student loans under part B or D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 made during the period when a sequestration order under section 254 is in effect as required by section 252 or 253, origination fees under sections 438(c)(2) and 455(c) of that Act shall each be increased by 0.50 percentage point.”.

(d) Health Centers.—Section 256(e)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking the dash and all that follows thereafter and inserting “2 percent.”.

(e) Treatment of Federal Administrative Expenses.— Section 256(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended—

(1) in paragraph (2), by striking “joint resolution” and inserting “part”; and

(2) in paragraph (4), by striking subparagraphs (D) and (H), by redesignating subparagraphs (E), (F), (G), and (I), as subparagraphs (D), (E), (F), and (G), respectively, and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(H) Farm Credit Administration.”.

(f) Commodity Credit Corporation.—Section 256(j) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking paragraphs (2) through (5) and inserting the following:

“(2) Reduction in payments made under contracts.—(A) Loan eligibility under any contract entered into with a person by the Commodity Credit Corporation prior to the time an order has been issued under section 254 shall not be reduced by an order subsequently issued. Subject to subparagraph (B), after an order is issued under such section for a fiscal year, any cash payments for loans or loan deficiencies made by the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be subject to reduction under the order.

“(B) Each loan contract entered into with producers or producer cooperatives with respect to a particular crop of a commodity and subject to reduction under subparagraph (A) shall be reduced in accordance with the same terms and conditions. If some, but not all, contracts applicable to a crop of a commodity have been entered into prior to the issuance of an order under section 254, the order shall provide that the necessary reduction in payments under contracts applicable to the commodity be uniformly applied to all contracts for the next succeeding crop of the commodity, under the authority provided in paragraph (3).

“(3) Delayed reduction in outlays permissible.— Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, if an order under section 254 is issued with respect to a fiscal year, any reduction under the order applicable to contracts described in paragraph (1) may provide for reductions in outlays for the account involved to occur in the fiscal year following the fiscal year to which the order applies.

“(4) Uniform percentage rate of reduction and other limitations.—All reductions described in paragraph (2) which are required to be made in connection with an order issued under section 254 with respect to a fiscal year shall be made so as to ensure that outlays for each program, project, activity, or account involved are reduced by a percentage rate that is uniform for all such programs, projects, activities, and accounts, and may not be made so as to achieve a percentage rate of reduction in any such item exceeding the rate specified in the order.

“(5) Diary program.—Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, as the sole means of achieving any reduction in outlays under the milk price support program, the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide for a reduction to be made in the price received by producers for all milk produced in the United States and marketed by producers for commercial use. That price reduction (measured in cents per hundred weight of milk marketed) shall occur under section 201(d)(2)(A) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446(d)(2)(A)), shall begin on the day any sequestration order is issued under section 254, and shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the reduction in outlays under the milk price support program that otherwise would have been achieved by reducing payments for the purchase of milk or the products of milk under this subsection during the applicable fiscal year.”.

(g) Effects of Sequestration—Section 256(k) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended as follows:

(1) In paragraph (1), strike “other than a trust or special fund account” and insert “, except as provided in paragraph (5)” before the period.

(2) Amend paragraph (6) to read as follows:

“(6) Budgetary resources sequestered in revolving, trust, and special fund accounts and offsetting collections sequestered in appropriation accounts shall not be available for obligation during the fiscal year in which the sequestration occurs, but shall be available in subsequent years to the extent otherwise provided in law.”.

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COUNSEL NOTES

Codification

This section was not classified to the U.S. Code.

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF MANAGERS
(H. CONF. REPT. 105-217)

The joint explanatory statement of managers for the conference committee on H.R. 2014 summarized this section as follows:

U.S. Congress, Joint Explanatory Statement on the Committee of Conference on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; (Conference Report), Committee on the Budget, House of Representatives, 105th Congress, 1st Session, Washington D.C. 1997, pp. 1004-1005.

Congressional Research service report

CRS issued a report on the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105-33), including this description of this section:

Section 10208. General and Special Sequestration Rules. Section 256 of the BBA sets forth exceptions, limitations, and special rules regarding the implementation of a sequester for specified programs, including, among others, guaranteed student loan programs, foster care and adoption assistance programs, Medicare, federal pay and administrative expenses, and the Commodity Credit Corporation. Section 256(k) provides in part that budgetary resources sequestered from any account other than a trust or special fund account shall be permanently canceled. Section 10208 of the bill makes various technical and conforming changes to Section 256 of the act, including changes affecting the student loan program and the Commodity Credit Corporation. In addition, Section 10208(g) amends Section 256(k) to add revolving funds and offsetting collections in appropriation accounts to the types of budgetary resources not permanently canceled under a sequester. Such resources, barred from obligation during the fiscal year in which a sequester applied, would be available in later fiscal years, to the extent otherwise provided in law.

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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES

Pub. L. 105–33, title X, §10000, Nov. 5, 1990, 111 Stat. 708; (Budget Enforcement Act of 1997).

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