BPLA (Contents)
Budget Process Law Annotated (1993)
Section 601
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TITLE VI—BUDGET AGREEMENT ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS851
Sec. 601.852 Definitions and Point Of Order.
(a) Definitions.—As used in this title and for purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985:
(1) Maximum deficit amount.—The term “maximum deficit amount” means—
(A) with respect to fiscal year 1991, $327,000,000,000;
(B) with respect to fiscal year 1992, $317,000,000,000;
(C) with respect to fiscal year 1993, $236,000,000,000; [p. 300]
(D) with respect to fiscal year 1994, $102,000,000,000; and
(E) with respect to fiscal year 1995, $8.1,000,000,000;
as adjusted[853] in strict conformance with sections 251,[854] 252,[855] and 253[856] of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.[857]
(2) Discretionary spending limit.—The term “discretionary spending limit” means—
(A) with respect to fiscal year 1991—
(i) for the defense category: 288,918,000,000 in new budget authority [858] and $297,660,000,000 in outlays; [859]
(ii) for the international category: $20,100,000,000 In new budget authority and $18,600,000,000 in outlays; and
(iii) for the domestic category: $182,700,000,000 in new budget authority and $198,100,000,000 In outlays;
(B) with respect to fiscal year 1992—
(i) for the defense category: $291,643,000,000 in new budget authority and $295,744,000,000 in outlays;
(ii) for the international category: $20,500,000,000 in new budget authority and [p. 301] $19,100,000,000 in outlays; and
(iii) for the domestic category: $191,300,000,000 in new budget authority and $210,100,000,000 in outlays;
(C) with respect to fiscal year 1993—
(i) for the defense category: $291,785,000,000 in new budget authority and $292,686,000,000 in outlays;
(ii) for the international category: $21,400,000,000 in new budget authority and $19,600,000,000 in outlays; and
(iii) for the domestic category: $198,300,000,000 in new budget authority and $221,700,000,000 in outlays;
(D) with respect to fiscal year 1994, for the discretionary category: $510,800,000,000 in new budget authority and $534,800,000,000 in outlays;
(E) with respect to fiscal year 1995, for the discretionary category: $517,700,000,000 in new budget authority and $540,800,000,000 in outlays; and
(F) with respect to fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998, for the discretionary category, the amounts set forth for those years in section 12(b)(1) of House Concurrent Resolution 64 (One Hundred Third Congress);[860]
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as adjusted[861] in strict conformance with section 251[862] of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
851. Section 13111of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 repealed the original title heading of title VI and added what is now title VI. See infra p. 707. For legislative history of title VI as added by the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, see infra note 936 (at the end of this title). As originally enacted in 1974, the title heading for title VI read as follows:
TITLE VI
AMENDMENTS TO BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING ACT, 1921
852. Section 601 is codified at 2 U.S.C. § 665 (Supp. IV 1992), amended by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-666, § 14002, 107 Stat. 312 (1993). For legislative history of section 601, see infra note 870 (at the end of this section).
853. Pursuant to section 253(g) of Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (see infra pp. 528-533), Presidential budget submissions have adjusted these targets.
See:
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1994, 137 (1993);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1993: Supplement, February 1992, pt. 4, at 9 (1992);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1993, app. 2, at 10 (1992);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1992, pt. 5, at 10 (1991).
854. See infra pp. 475-502.
855. See infra pp. 509-517.
856. See infra pp. 523-533.
857. Before enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, section 3(7) of the Congressional Budget Act defined the term “maximum deficit amount”. (Section 13112(a)(2)(A) of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, repealed the old section 3(7). See infra p. 708.) Before enactment of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, section 3(7) read as follows:
(7) The term “maximum deficit amount” means—
(A) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1985, $171,900,000,000;
(B) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1986, $144,000,000,000;
(C) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1987, $144,000,000,000;
(D) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1988, $136,000,000,000;
(E) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1989, $100,000,000,000;
(F) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1990, $64,000,000,000;
(G) with respect to the f15cal year beginning October 1, 1991, $28,000,000,000; and
(H) with respect to the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1992, zero.
858. Section 3(2) defines “budget authority”. See supra pp. 11-13.
859. Section 3(1) defines “outlays”. See supra p. 11.
860. That is, the Concurrent Resolution Setting Forth the Congressional Budget for the United States Government for the Fiscal Years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998, H. Con. Res. 64, 103d Cong. 1st Sess. 12(b)(1), 139 Cong. Rec. H1747, H1753 (daily ed. Mar. 31, 1993) (adopted). Section 14002(11)(2) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L 103-, I 14002(a)(2), 107 Stat. 312 (1993), added this subparagraph. For legislative history of the change, see infra note 870. The joint statement of managers accompanying that Act sets forth the resulting limits:
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS: fiscal YEARS 1994-1998
(in billions of dollars)
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| Fiscal Year | |||||
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |
| Conference Agreement | |||||
| Budget Authority | 509.920 | 517.396 | 519.142 | 528.079 | 530.639 |
| Outlays | 537.254 | 538.952 | 547.263 | 547.346 | 547.870 |
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H. Rept. 103-213 (Conference Report pp. 945-46), 103d Cong., 1st Sess. (1993), as reprinted in 139 Cong. Rec. H5792, H6039 (daily ed. Aug. 4, 1993).
861. Pursuant to section 251(b) of Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (see infra pp. 493-502), Presidential budget submissions have adjusted these targets.
See:
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1994, 133-137 (1993);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1993: Supplement, February 1992, pt. 4, at 3-7 (1992);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1993, app. 2, at 5-8 (1992);
Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1992, pt. 5, at 3-7 (1991).
862. See infra pp. 475-502.
(b) Point of Order in the Senate on Aggregate Allocations for Defense, International and Domestic Discretionary Spend-[p. 304]ing.[863]—
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection,[864] it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998 (or amendment, motion, or conference report on such a resolution) that would exceed any of the discretionary spending limits in this section.[865]
[p. 305]
(3) [(2)] [866] For purposes of this subsection, the [p. 306] levels of new budget authority[867] and outlays[868] for a fiscal year shall be determined on the basis of estimates made by the Committee on the Budget of the Senate.
(4)[869] [(3)] This subsection shall not apply if a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect or if a joint resolution pursuant to section 258 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 has been enacted.[870]
[Footnote #870 extends from page 306 to the end of the section on page 313.]
863. Section 904(c) provides that the Senate may waive or suspend section 601(b) only by the affirmative vote or three-fifths or the Members, duly chosen and sworn, that is, 60 Senators. See infra pp. 361-363. Section 275(b) of Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 provides that this supermajority requirement expires on September 30, 1955. See infra p. 690.
Note also the provisions for the suspension or title VI under certain circumstances after the declaration of war or a recession pursuant to section 258 or Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. See infra pp. 619-630.
864. This is a reference to paragraph (4) below (see infra p. 306), regarding declarations of war and joint resolutions pursuant to section 258 of Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Paragraph (4) should have been renumbered to appear as paragraph (3).
865. For the discretionary spending limits, see section 601(a)(2) supra pp. 301-303.
Section 14002(b) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66, § 14002(b), 107 Stat. 312 (19CJ3), amended this paragraph to read as it does now. The joint statement of managers accompanying that Act states in connection with this language:
The conferees note that in the context or the other changes made by the conference agreement, the extension of section 601(b)(1) will codify a point of order in the Senate identical in effect to that created by section 12(b)(2) of the concurrent resolution adopted in April of 1993. (H. Con. Res. 64, 103rd Cong., 1st Sess., section 12(b)(2), 139 Cong. Rec. H1747, Hl753 (daily ed. Mar. 31, 1993) (adopted)).
H.R. Conf. Rep. 103-213, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. 961 (1993), reprinted in 139 Cong. Rec. H5792, H6043 (daily ed. Aug. 4, 1993). For further legislative history or this amendment, see infra note 870. Section 12(b)(2) of the fiscal year 1994 budget resolution provides:
(2) Point of Order in the Senate.—
(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1995, 1996, 1997, or 1998 (or amendment, motion. or conference report on such a resolution) that would exceed any or the discretionary spending limits in this section.
(B) This subsection shall not apply if a declaration of war by the Congress is in effect or if a joint resolution pursuant to section 258 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 has been enacted.
H. Con. Res. 64, 103rd Cong. 1st Sess., § 12(b)(2), 139 Cong. Rec. H1747, H1753 (daily ed. Mar. 31, 1993) (adopted). The joint statement of managers accompanying the budget resolution explains: “Section 11 of the Senate amendment contains new enforcement procedure to extend the system of discretionary spending limits as they apply to budget resolutions in the Senate for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998 …”
H. Rep. 103-48 (Conference Report, p. 47), 103d Cong., 1st Sess. (1993), reprinted in 139 Cong. Rec. H1747, H1760 (daily ed. Mar. 31, 1993).
Before enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, section 601(b)(1) read as follows:
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), it shall not be in order in the Senate to consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1992, 1993, 1994, or 1995 (or amendment, motion, or conference report on such a resolution), or any appropriations bill or resolution (or amendment, motion, or conference report on such an appropriations bill or resolution) for fiscal year 1992 or 1993 that would exceed the allocations in this section or the suballocations made under section 602(b) based on these allocations.
In this, older version or section 601(b)(1), the reference to paragraph (3) was actually a reference to the paragraph that appears as paragraph (4) below, which should have been renumbered to appear as paragraph (3). Instead of “the allocations in this section,” this paragraph should have referred to “the discretionary spending limits in this section” to conform to the term used in subsection (a)(2). See supra pp. 301-303.
Under this section as originally enacted, a point of order thus lays against a concurrent resolution on the budget that exceeded the levels in this section, an appropriation bill that exceeded the levels in this section, or an appropriations bill or resolution that exceeded the suballocations made based on these levels.
It was not necessary to extend the application of this paragraph to appropriations acts, as the discretionary spending limits for the relevant fiscal years apply only to the aggregate amount allocated to the Appropriations Committees, and a point of order enforcing that limit would be redundant to that provided by section 602(c). See infra p. 317.
866. This is so in the original; this should be paragraph (2).
867. Section 3(2) defines “budget authority”. See supra pp. 11-13.
868. Section 3(1) defines “outlays”. See supra p. 11.
869. This is so in the original; this should be paragraph (3).
870. Section 14002 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66, § 14002, 107 Stat. 312 (1993), extended the discretionary spending limits of this section. Section 14001(2) of that Act states: “The Congress declares that it is essential to … extend the system of discretionary spending limits for the single discretionary category set forth in section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.” The joint statement of managers accompanying that Act explains:
overview
The Conference Agreement on the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 is a carefully crafted, rational and constructive compromise which implements the basic objectives of both the House and the Senate bills … It confirms and extends those budget process changes enacted in the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 which have exercised effective discipline over the Federal budget.
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Every policy change in the conference agreement is specific and enforceable. It … establishes new caps on discretionary spending to ensure that appropriations do not exceed the level established in the budget resolution.
. . . .
More than half of the deficit reduction is made on the spending side. The conference agreement mandates $88 billion in net entitlement cuts. [p. 307] The caps on discretionary spending will reduce outlays by $102 billion compared with a continuation of current policies. Debt service savings, changes in debt management and miscellaneous effects will account for another $65 billion.
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Discretionary Spending Limits, the Pay-As-You-Go Requirement, and Related Procedures
Summary
Subtitles A and B of Title XV (Budget Process) of the House-passed bill amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, more commonly known as the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (GRH) Act, and the Congressional Budget Act (CBA) of 1974. The purpose of the amendments is to extend the discretionary spending limits and pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) requirement, both enforced by sequestration, through fiscal year 1998, and to make other changes in the budget process. Subtitle A, called the Budget Enforcement Act (BEA) of 1993, revises the procedures under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act for enforcement of the discretionary spending limits and the pay-as-you-go requirement. Subtitle B revises and extends the discretionary spending limits in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (and makes other changes in the congressional budget process, which this joint statement discusses below).
Title XIV (Enforcement Procedures) of the Senate amendment extends the discretionary spending limits and the pay-as-you-go requirement through fiscal year 1998, and makes minor modifications in the procedures for enforcing them, by amending the Congressional Budget Act and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
In conference, the House recedes to the Senate. As noted, both the House and the Senate extend the discretionary caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement through 1998. Both chambers consider this extension to be important for enforcing the overall budget and economic plan. Thus, the conference disposition of title XV, subtitle A, of the House bill and title XIV of the Senate bill is consistent with the intent of both chambers.
Background
Congress fundamentally revised the sequestration process with the Budget Enforcement Act (BEA) of 1990 (title XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. L. No. 101-508, tit. XIII, 104 Stat. 1388, 1388-573 to -630 (Nov. 5, 1990) (codified as amended in scattered sections of 2 U.S.C. and at 15 U.S.C. Sec. § 1022 (Supp. II 1990)). First, the Act extended the process through fiscal year 1995 [(although the budget was not required, nor expected, to be balanced by that time). Second, the Act made the deficit targets adjustable for changes in economic conditions and other factors.][1] Third, the Act established adjustable [p. 308] discretionary spending limits to control the growth of annual appropriations and instituted a pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) requirement to ensure that legislative changes in mandatory spending and revenue levels do not increase the deficit in the net. The act also made these latter two procedures (in effect through fiscal year 1995) enforceable by sequestration. Congress intended that the appropriations caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement would control subsequent legislation, so that Congress and the President would not undo the deficit reduction that the 1990 budget summit agreement accomplished. Congress has the same purpose for extending the appropriations caps and the pay-as-you-go requirement in this Act–to prevent future legislation from undoing the spending cuts and revenue increases agreed to in the budget resolution and the other titles of this Act, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1993.
The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is linked to the procedures under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act in various ways. In particular, the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 sets forth the deficit targets and discretionary spending limits used for purposes of sequestration.
2. Discretionary Spending Limits (Section 251 of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings)
Current Law
The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 established discretionary spending limits for fiscal years 1991 through 1995 in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The limits on discretionary budget authority and discretionary outlays are used for spending control under section 251 of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and are enforceable by the sequestration process. The Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 divides total discretionary spending into three categories – defense, international, and domestic – for fiscal years 1991 through 1993. For fiscal years 1994 and 1995, the limits apply to total discretionary budget authority and total discretionary outlays.
Additionally, section 601(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 creates a point of order in the Senate against the consideration of any budget resolution or appropriations bill that violates the discretionary spending limits.
Section 251 of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act sets forth a detailed procedure for the periodic, automatic adjustment of the discretionary spending limits. Adjustments are made for various factors, including (among others) changes in accounting concepts and inflation, quota increases for the International Monetary Fund, funding increases for the compliance initiative of the Internal Revenue Service, and emergency spending if so designated by the President and Congress.
[p. 309]
Section 251 also provides: (1) that a within-session sequester may occur prior to July 1 during a fiscal year, but after that date the amount of the breach is dealt with in the subsequent fiscal year; and (2) that sequestration reductions must be applied uniformly (at the account and, if appropriate, activity level).
House Bill
The House bill continues the use of adjustable discretionary limits (‘caps’). They initially are set forth in a new section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and cover the period 1994-1998. The current limits for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 are revised and new limits are established for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 (see table below). Those limits are consistent with the fiscal year 1994 budget resolution, H. Con. Res. 64 (103d Congress), adopted by the House on March 31, 1993, and by the Senate on April 1. As is the case under current law, separate limits are established each year for total discretionary budget authority and outlays.
Current law, the House bill, and the Senate amendment have the same outlay limits for fiscal years 1994 and 1995. In the table below, the current and Senate outlay limits appear lower than those in the House bill only because they do not yet reflect the outlays from the ‘Special Budget Authority Allowance,’ an adjustment that will be made at the end of the session. The House bill and Senate amendment have the same budget authority and outlay limits for fiscal years 1996-1998.
Senate Amendment
Section 12(a) of the concurrent resolution on the budget adopted in April of 1993 provides that “[t]he Senate declares that it is essential to . . . extend the system of discretionary spending limits set forth in section 601 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.’ H. Con. Res. 64, 103d Cong., 1st Sess. 12(a)(2), 139 Cong. Rec. H1747, H1753 (daily ed. Mar. 31, 1993) (adopted). Section 12(b) set forth those limits for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 and created a point of order in the Senate to enforce them. See id. Sec. 12(b).
In furtherance of the budget resolution, section 14002 of the Senate amendment continues the use of adjustable discretionary spending limits through fiscal year 1998. Unlike the House bill, the Senate amendment retains the current limits for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 without charge and establishes new limits for fiscal years 1996 through 1998. (See table below.) Section 14002 provides that the discretionary spending limits for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 are those set forth in section 12(b)(1) of the budget resolution, which the House also used. As is the case for fiscal years 1994 and 1995 under current law, the Senate amendment establishes separate limits each year for total discretionary budget authority and total discretionary outlays.
[p. 310]
The Senate amendment retains, with minor technical and conforming changes, the current law’s procedures for periodically adjusting the discretionary spending limits.
Conference Agreement
The conference agreement contains the Senate language.
The table below sets forth the proposed discretionary spending limits in the House bill, the Senate amendment, and the conference agreement.
Discretionary Spending Limits: Fiscal Years 1994-1998
(in billions of dollars)
| 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | |
| Current Law | |||||
| Budget Authority | 509.920 | 517.396 | — | — | — |
| Outlays | 537.254 | 538.952 | — | — | — |
| House Bill | |||||
| Budget Authority | 500.964 | 506.287 | 519.142 | 528.079 | 530.639 |
| Outlays | 538.688 | 541.137 | 547.263 | 547.346 | 547.870 |
| Senate Amendment | |||||
| Budget Authority | |||||
| Outlays | |||||
| Conference Agreement | |||||
| Budget Authority | |||||
| Outlays |
Discretionary spending limits under current law are the “preview report discretionary limits” in the “Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1994,135 (1993)”. Current law provides, and the Senate amendment retains, a “Special Budget Authority Allowance” through fiscal year 1995 that will increase the limits on budget authority and outlays for those years when the end session sequestration reports are prepared, including that adjustment as currently estimated, the outlay limits for 1994 and 1995 are the same in current law, the House bill, and the Senate amendment.
H. Rep. 103-213 (Conference Report, pp. 399, 402, 936-937), 103d Cong., 1st Sess. (1993), reprinted in 139 Cong. Rec. H5792, H5890-91, H5893, H0036-39 (daily ed. Aug. 4, 1993). For additional legislative history of the extension of title VI, see infra note 936 (at the end of title VI).
Section 13111 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 added what is now section 601. See infra p. 707. For excerpts from the statement of managers accompanying the conference [p. 311] report on the Budget Enforcement Act, see infra note 936.
Public Law 97-258 repealed the section 601 originally enacted in the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. See An Act to Revise, Codify, and Enact Without Substantive Change Certain General and Permanent Laws, Related to Money and Finance, as title 31, United States Code, “Money and Finance,” Pub. L No. 97-258, § 5(b), 96 Stat. 871, 1082 (1982). The original section 601-605 and 607 were codified in sections 1105, 1106, and 1108-1110 of title 31. As originally enacted in 1974, section 601 read as follows:
Matters to Be Included in President’s Budget
Sec. 601. Section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 11) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections:
“(d) The Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for each fiscal year shall set forth separately the items enumerated in section 301(a)(1)-(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
“(e) The Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for each fiscal year shall set forth the levels of tax expenditures under existing law for such fiscal year (the tax expenditure budget), taking into account projected economic factors, and any changes in such existing levels based on proposals contained in such Budget. For purposes of this subsection, the terms tax expenditures” and “tax expenditures budget” have the meaning given to them by section 3(a)(3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
“(f) The Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for each fiscal year shall contain—
“(1) a comparison, for the last completed fiscal year, of the total amount of outlays estimated in the Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for each major program involving uncontrollable outlays and the total amount of outlays made under each such major program during such fiscal year;
“(2) a comparison, for the last completed fiscal year, of the total amount of revenues estimated [p. 312] in the Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a)and the total amount of revenues received during such year, and, with respect to each major revenue source, the amount of revenues estimated in the Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) and the amount of revenues received during such year; and
“(3) an analysis and explanation of the difference between each amount set forth pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) as the amount of outlays or revenues estimated in the Budget submitted under subsection (a) for such fiscal year and the corresponding amount set forth as the amount of outlays made or revenues received during such fiscal year.
“(g) The President shall transmit to the Congress, on or before April 10 and July 15 of each year, a statement of all amendments to or revisions in the budget authority requested, the estimated outlays, and the estimated receipts for the ensuing fiscal year set forth in the Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) (including any previous amendments or revisions proposed on behalf of the executive branch) that he deems necessary and appropriate based on the most current information available. Such statement shall contain the effect of such amendments and revisions on the summary data submitted under subsection (a) and shall include such supporting detail as is practicable. The statement transmitted on or before July 15 of any year may be included in the supplemental summary required to be transmitted under subsection (b) during such year. The Budget transmitted to the Congress pursuant to subsection (a) for any fiscal year, or the supporting detail transmitted in connection therewith, shall include a statement of all such amendments and revisions with respect to the fiscal year in progress made before the date of transmission or such Budget.
“(h) The Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection (a) for each fiscal year shall include information with respect to estimates of appropriations for the next succeeding fiscal year for grants, contracts, or other payments under any program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for such succeeding fiscal year and such appropriations are authorized to be included in an appropriation Act for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation.
“(i) The Budget transmitted pursuant to subsection [p. 313] (a) for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 1979, shall contain a presentation or budget authority, proposed budget authority, outlays, proposed outlays, and descriptive information in terms or—
“(1) a detailed structure or national needs which shall be used to reference all agency missions and programs;
“(2) agency missions and
“(3) basic programs.
To the extent practicable, each agency shall furnish information in support of its budget requests in accordance with its assigned missions in terms of Federal functions and subfunctions, including mission responsibilities or component organizations, and shall relate its programs to agency missions.”
Counsel Notes
Current Law
This section was repealed along with the entirety of title VI by section 10118 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1997 (Pub. L. 105-33).
Endnotes
[1] Bracketed text was intentionally omitted by the BPLA, perhaps due to space considerations.
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