BBEDCA (Contents)
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
Section 224
Title II—Deficit Reduction Procedures
PART A—CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS
SUBPART III—ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE BUDGET PROCEDURES
Sec. 224. Changes in functional categories.
Section 1104(c) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate shall receive prompt notification of all such changes.”.
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COUNSEL NOTES
This changes the notification requirements about changes made to “functional categories“. These categories predate the enactment of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and were a component of the Hoover Commission’s recommendations related to the reorganization of the Federal Government.
The Joint Explanatory Statement of the Managers of Conference on the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 included this description:
Section 224. Changes in Functional Categories
The House amendment contained an amendment to section 1104(c) of title 31, United States Code.
The Senate amendment contained no such amendment.
The conference agreement adds the House language to the end of section 1104(c) of title 31, United States Code. Under current law, the President may make changes in the functional categories of the Budget only in consultation with the Appropriations and Budget Committees of both Houses. The new sentence would require that all committees of the House and Senate receive prompt notification of changes in functional categories. Because Congress decides budget priorities by functional category it must have a voice in shaping those categories. The requirement added by the conference agreement ensures that all committees are promptly made aware of such changes.
U.S. House of Representatives, Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Conference Report to Accompany H. J. Res. 372, House Report 99-433 (December 10, 1985).
Changes to Existing Law Made by Section 224
Section 1104(c) of title 31, with added language in italics, reads as follows:
(c) When the President makes a basic change in the form of the budget, the President shall submit with the budget information showing where items in the budget for the prior fiscal year are contained in the present budget. However, the President may change the functional categories in the budget only in consultation with the Committees on Appropriations and on the Budget of both Houses of Congress. Committees of the House of Representatives and Senate shall receive prompt notification of all such changes.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES
PUBLIC LAWS
Pub. L. 99–177, title II, §224, Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1059 (Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985).
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