Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (General)
Congressional Budget Act of 1974
Table of Contents
[As Enacted]
Sec. 1. Short titles; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Declaration of purposes.
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF HOUSE AND SENATE BUDGET COMMITTEES
Sec. 101. Budget Committee of the House of Representatives.
Sec. 102. Budget Committee of the Senate.
TITLE II—CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
See. 201. Establishment of Office.
Sec. 202. Duties and functions.
Sec. 203. Public access to budget data.
TITLE III—CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS
Sec. 301. Adoption of first concurrent resolution.
Sec. 302. Matters to be included in joint statement of managers; reports by committees.
Sec. 304. Permissible revisions of concurrent resolutions on the budget.
Sec. 305. Provisions relating to the consideration of concurrent resolutions on the budget.
Sec. 306. Legislation dealing with congressional budget must be handled by budget committees.
Sec. 308. Reports, summaries, and projections of congressional budget actions.
Sec. 310. Second required concurrent resolution and reconciliation process.
TITLE IV—ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS TO IMPROVE FISCAL PROCEDURES
Sec. 401. Bills providing new spending authority.
Sec. 402. Reporting of authorizing legislation.
Sec. 403. Analyses by Congressional Budget Office.
Sec. 404. Jurisdiction of Appropriations Committees.
TITLE V—CHANGE OF FISCAL YEAR
Sec. 501. Fiscal year to begin October 1.
Sec. 502. Transition to new fiscal year.
Sec. 503. Accounting procedures.
Sec. 504. Conversion of authorizations of appropriations.
Sec, 506. Technical amendment.
TITLE VI—AMENDMENTS TO BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING ACT, 1921
Sec. 601. Matters to be included in President’s budget.
Sec. 603. Five-year budget projections.
Sec. 604. Allowances for supplemental budget authority and uncontrollable outlays.
Sec. 605. Budget data based on continuation of existing level of services.
Sec. 606. Study of off-budget agencies.
Sec. 607. Year-ahead requests for authorization of new budget authority.
TITLE VII—PROGRAM REVIEW AND EVALUATION
Sec. 701. Review and evaluation by standing committees.
Sec. 702. Review and evaluation by the Comptroller General.
Sec. 703. Continuing study of additional budget reform proposals.
TITLE VIII—FISCAL AND BUDGETARY INFORMATION AND CONTROLS
Sec. 801. Amendment to Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970.
Sec. 802. Changes in functional categories.
TITLE IX—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS; EFFECTIVE DATES
Sec. 901. Amendments to rules of the House.
Sec. 902. Conforming amendments to standing rules of the Senate.
Sec. 903. Amendments to Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946.
Sec. 904. Exercise of rulemaking powers.
Sec. 906. Application of congressional budget process to fiscal year 1976.
TITLE X—IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL
PART A—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 1002. Amendment to Antideficiency Act.
Sec. 1003. Repeal of existing impoundment reporting provision.
PART B—CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS, RESERVATIONS, AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY
Sec. 1012. Rescission of budget authority.
Sec. 1013. Disapproval of proposed deferrals of budget authority.
Sec. 1014. Transmission of messages; publication.
Sec. 1015. Reports by Comptroller General.
Sec. 1016. Suits by Comptroller General.
Sec. 1017. Procedure in House and Senate.
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BUDGET 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 1. Short Title
The House bill provided that this act may be cited as the “Budget and Impoundment Control Act or 1973.” The short title of the Senate amendment was the “Congressional Budget Act of 1974.” The conference substitute provides that the Act may be cited as the “Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.”
The conference substitute also provides that Titles I through IX of this act may be cited the “Congressional Budget Act or 1974” and Title X as the “Impoundment Control Act of 1974.”.
[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 1. Short Titles, Table of Contents.
CLASSIFICATION TO THE U.S. CODE
This section was not classified to the U.S. Code as such, but was set out as a note in the former 31 U.S.C. 1301.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES
PUBLIC LAWS
Pub. L. 93–344, §1, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 297. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 enacted this section into law.
REVISION OF TITLE 31 OF THE U.S. CODE
The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 was generally 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:
- Pub. L. 97–258, §1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877
- Title 31 Revision and Codification Law of 1982
- Revision of Title 31
- Table on the House Law Revision Counsel Website.
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