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Bill· HRH.R. 2668 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Title I: General Provisions - Sets forth the policy of this Act. Title II: General Budget Office - Establishes an independent agency of the Federal Government to be known as the General Budget Office. Provides that the Office shall be under the charge of a Director, appointed by the Presidnet by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who may appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as he deems advisable. Provides that the Office shall, upon request made by the Congress or on the authorization of the Congress or any committee thereof, conduct periodic investigations into the operation of the General Accounting Office and thereafter prepare and transmit to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate a report of its findings and recommendations based upon each such investigation. Authorizes the Director to procure directly from any agency of the Federal Government such information as he shall determine necessary to enable the Office to carry out its functions under this title. Provides that the head of each agency of the Federal Government shall, upon request made by the Office, the Congress or any committee thereof, explain the operation of such agency. Title III: Amendments to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 - Provides that the Comptroller General may procure directly from any agency of the Federal Government such information as he shall determine necessary to enable the General Accounting Office to carry out its functions under the Budget and Accounting Act. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 53) Title IV: Change of Fiscal Year to Calendar Year - Provides that commencing with the next calendar year which begins after the date of enactment of this Act, the fiscal year of each agency of the Federal Government shall be the calendar year. Title V: Appropriations Procedures - Authorizes to be appropriated during each calendar year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act. Provides that if by January of any Calendar year the Congress has not passed a bill which appropriates funds for the operation of any agency of the Federal Government for that calendar year, such agency shall operate in accordance with the provisions of the recommended budget for that calendar year transmitted to the Congress by the General Budget Office. Provides that if by January 1 of any calendar year the Congress has passed an Act which appropriates funds for the operation of an agency of the Federal Government for that calendar year, and which has not been signed by the President, such agency shall operate in accordance with the provisions of such Act.
Bill· SS. 460 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Budget and Accounting Improvement Act - Title I: Assistance to Congress - Authorizes the Comptroller General to review and analyze ongoing Government programs and activities either: (1) upon his own initiative; (2) when ordered by either House of Congress; or (3) when, after consultation with the Comptroller General, the chairman of any committee of the House or Senate or of any joint committee of the two Houses having jurisdiction over such programs and activities requests such a review or study. Authorizes the Comptroller General upon request of a committee chairman to assign employees of the office of the Comptroller General on a temporary basis to any committee of eiHouyy House or to any joint committee of the two Houses for the purpose of: (1) analyzing cost-benefit studies and any other analytical studies furnished by any Federal agency to such committee or joint committee; or (2) conducting cost-benefit, and other analytical studies of programs under the jurisdiction of such committee or joint committee. Authorizes the Comptroller General to make analyses of legislative proposals and alternatives, including those alternatives available to the departments and agencies, the long-term costs and benefits thereof, the analytical processes involved in the justification of such proposals, and the validity of the data supporting them. Provides that any Member of Congress desiring an analysis or review of a legislative proposal shall notify in writing the Comptroller General and the chairman of the committee of his House of the Congress having jurisdiction over such proposal. Requires, within 30 days after the receipt of the notice, that the Comptroller General advise the Member and chairman which questions and issues are within the competence and available resources in his Office. Provides that the Comptroller General will have 60 days to make the studies requested and submit the reports thereon to the committee chairmen and the Members. Requires the Comptroller General to submit status reports to the Congress not later than 30 days after the beginning of each congressional session and at such other times as he believes useful during periods when authorizations and appropriations are being considered on such major weapons systems, major construction programs, and research and development programs as he considers will be of primary interest to the Congress. Provides that such reports shall be designed to advise Congress of : (1) current cost estimates as compared with prior estimates for (a) research, development, and engineering and (b) production; (2) the reasons for significant fluctuations in cost estimates between the original authorization and contract and the current cost requirement; (3) options available under the contract for additional procurement and whether the agency intends to exercise any options, and the projected cost of exercising options; (4) changes in the performance specifications or estimates made by the contractor or agency and the reasons for any major change in actual or estimated differences from that stated in the original contract specifications; and (5) significant slippages in time schedules and reasons therefor. Title II: Office of the Comptroller General of the United States - Changes the name of the General Accounting Office to the Office of the Comptroller General of the United States. Authorizes the Comptroller General to place two positions at a salary rate not to exceed level IV of the Executive Schedule ($38,000) when he considers that action necessary to reflect changes in organization, management responsibilities, or workload of the Office. Renames the Assistant Comptroller General of the United States the Deputy Comptroller General of the United States to conform to present practice regarding organizational nomenclature. Title III: Audits of Government Corporations - Provides that each wholly owned Government corporation subject to the Government Corporation Control Act shall, effective January 1, 1970, be audited at least one in every three years. Provides that the Comptroller General's report of each audit of each wholly owned Government corporation shall be made to the Congress not later than six and one-half months following the close of the last year covered by such audit. Makes the same change in the frequency of audit and reporting date with respect to each mixed-ownership Government corporation as is provided for wholly owned Government corporations. Makes a similar change in the frequency of audit and reporting date with respect to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Homeowners Foundation. Repeals the requirement for an annual audit by the General Accounting Office of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Corporation and the Federal Home Loan Bank Board respectively, thereby granting the Comptroller General discretionary authority to determine the frequency of such audits. Title IV: Revision of Annual Audit Requirements - Eliminates the requirements for annual audits of the following revolving funds and makes them subject to audit at the discretion of the Comptroller General, in accordance with the provisions of the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950: (1) the General Supply Fund, GSA; (2) War Risk Insurance Fund, Transportation; (3) Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund, Treasury; (4) Veterans Canteen Fund, VA; (5) Student Loan Insurance Fund, HEW; (6) Urban Renewal Fund, HUD; and (7) College Housing Fund, HUD. Title V: Experts and Consultants - Authorizes the Comptroller General to enter into contracts with organizations or individuals to employ individual experts and consultants. Title VI: Subpena Power - Authorizes the Comptroller General to sign and issue subpenas requiring the production of negotiated contract and subcontract records and records of other non- Federal persons or organizations to which he has a right of access by law or agreement. Title VII: Enforcement of Decisions and Settlements - Authorizes the Comptroller General to institute whatever civil actions or other proceedings in the appropriate District Court of the United States he determines necessary in connection with his settlement of accounts and claims by and against the United States and to appear before any District Court of the United States or the United States Court of Claims in any civil action or other proceeding in connection therewith. Provides for declaratory and injunctive relief when the Comptroller General has reasonable cause to believe that any official of the executive branch is about to expend, obligate, or authorize the expenditure or obligation of public funds in an illegal or erroneous manner. Authorizes the Comptroller General to institute a civil action for such relief in the District Court for the District of Columbia. Title VIII: Review of Nonappropriated Fund Activities Within the Executive Branch of the Government - Provides, under the Budget and Accounting Act, that the operations of nonappropraited funds and related activities within the executive branch, the systems and accounting and internal controls and any internal or independent audits or reviews of such funds and activities shall be subject to review by the Comptroller General of the United States in accordance with such principles and procedures and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Bill· HRH.R. 2405 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Provides that the President shall include in the budget submitted to the Congress under the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, an item for not less than $2,000,000,000 to be applied toward reduction of the national debt. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 11(a)(5))
Bill· HRH.R. 2411 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for presidential appointments to the positions of Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Bill· HRH.R. 2237 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Requires Senate confirmation of the appointment of Director of the Office of Management and Budget. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 142 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Directs the Committee on Appropriations, not later than sixty days after the President's annual budget message has been received at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, to report to the House a resolution containing a House-authorized Federal budget for the ensuring fiscal year. Provides that the budget shall include: (1) the total of estimated Federal receipts from all sources; (2) the maximum amount to be provided in obligational authority in each appropriation bill or resolution and in such other legislative provisions of obligational authority as may be specified, and the estimated budget outlay related to each, including those outlays from funds provided in prior years; and (3) a table showing the relationship of total estimated receipts as shown in (1) to the aggregate of the maximum amounts to be provided in obligational authority and the aggregate of the estimated budget outlays as shown in (2). Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution by the House. Provides that a conference report on a bill or resolution carrying appropriations or otherwise providing obligational authority shall require the approval of two-thirds of those Members present and voting, a quorum being present, if the effect of the adoption of the report would be to provide an amount in excess of that contained in the House-authorized Federal budget for such year. Provides that, within fifteen calendar days after adoption of the House-authorized Federal budget, the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized and directed to report a resolution containing recommendations as to the levels of public debt and aggregate Federal revenues necessitated by figures on outlays and receipts contained in the House-authorized Federal budget. Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 141 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Directs the Committee on Appropriations, not later than sixty days after the President's annual budget message has been received at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, to report to the House a resolution containing a House-authorized Federal budget for the ensuring fiscal year. Provides that the budget shall include: (1) the total of estimated Federal receipts from all sources; (2) the maximum amount to be provided in obligational authority in each appropriation bill or resolution and in such other legislative provisions of obligational authority as may be specified, and the estimated budget outlay related to each, including those outlays from funds provided in prior years; and (3) a table showing the relationship of total estimated receipts as shown in (1) to the aggregate of the maximum amounts to be provided in obligational authority and the aggregate of the estimated budget outlays as shown in (2). Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution by the House. Provides that a conference report on a bill or resolution carrying appropriations or otherwise providing obligational authority shall require the approval of two-thirds of those Members present and voting, a quorum being present, if the effect of the adoption of the report would be to provide an amount in excess of that contained in the House-authorized Federal budget for such year. Provides that, within fifteen calendar days after adoption of the House-authorized Federal budget, the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized and directed to report a resolution containing recommendations as to the levels of public debt and aggregate Federal revenues necessitated by figures on outlays and receipts contained in the House-authorized Federal budget. Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution.
Bill· HRH.R. 1908 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Provides that no appropriation shall be made to construct any veterans' hospital or domiciliary facility or to acquire any such facility involving an expenditure in excess of $100,000, and no appropriation shall be made to alter any such facility involving an expenditure in excess of $500,000, if such construction, alteration, or acquisition has not been approved by a resolution adopted by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives. Requires the Administrator of the Veterans' Administration to submit to the Congress a prospectus of each proposed project to alter any hospital or domiciliary facility involving an expenditure in excess of $100,000 but equal to or less than $500,000. States that no hospital or domiciliary facility over which the Administrator has direct and exclusive jurisdiction and which is in operation on the date of enactment of this Act shall be closed unless such closing is approved by a resolution adopted by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 153 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 9 January 1973
Establishes the Joint Committee on the Federal Budget consisting of the chairmen of the Senate Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees and 11 other Members of the Senate; and the chairmen of the House Appropriations and House Ways and Means Committees and 11 other Members of the House of Representatives. Specifies as the duty of the committee to report annually to the Congress before the last day of February a Congressional Federal Budget setting forth: (1) estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations necessary for all branches of the Federal Government; (2) estimated receipts of the Federal Government; (3) revenue proposals deemed necessary; (4) actual appropriations, expenditures, and receipts of the Federal Government during the last completed fiscal year; (5) estimated expenditures and receipts, and actual appropriations of the Federal Government during the fiscal year in progress; (6) balance statements of the condition of the Treasury for the past, present, and estimated future fiscal years; (7) the total amount of the bonded and other indebtedness of the Federal Government; (8) a summary of estimated expenditures which will be required for the following 4 fiscal years under continuing programs which are considered mandatory under existing law; (9) a monthly appropriations balance sheet of appropriations approved as compared with appropriations recommended in the Budget, and total appropriations to date; and (10) any other financial data necessary in order to make known to Members of Congress the financial condition of the Federal Government. Authorizes the Committee to make expenditures, hold hearings, employ personnel, and utilize the General Accounting Office and other Congressional committee services to carry out its functions under this Act.
Law· SS. 37 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to Director and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)
Bill· SS. 20 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Provides that appointments to the office of Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
Bill· HRH.R. 618 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Internal Revenue Code, that if there is a budget surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, or for any fiscal year thereafter, there shall be allowed to each individual, as a credit against income tax for his first taxable year ending after the close of such fiscal year, an amount determined by multiplying: the amount of tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code for the taxable year, reduced by the sum of the credits allowable for such year a percentage determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Provides that the Secretary shall estimate such percentage as follows: (1) first, he shall estimate the amount of individual income taxes that will be received in the Treasury during the calendar year in which such fiscal year ends; and (2) then he shall determine that percentage which one-half of the budget surplus for such fiscal year is of the amount estimated under part (1). (Adds 36 U.S.C. 39)
Bill· HRH.R. 204 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 16)
Bill· HRH.R. 47 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides for the retirement of the public debt by setting aside the first 5 percent of the budget receipts of the United States for each fiscal year (except in time of war) for the sole purpose of retirement of obligations counted as part of the public debt. (Amends 31 U.S.C. 11)
Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 1 (93rd)open
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Extends the time within which the President must transmit to Congress the Budget and the Economic Report for fiscal year 1974 to January 29, 1973, and January 31, 1973. Extends the time within which the Joint Economic Committee shall file its report on the President's Economic Report with the House of Representatives and the Senate to March 10, 1973.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 17 (93rd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Directs the Committee on Appropriations, not later than sixty days after the President's annual budget message has been received at the beginning of each regular session of the Congress, to report to the House a resolution containing a House-authorized Federal budget for the ensuring fiscal year. Provides that the budget shall include: (1) the total of estimated Federal receipts from all sources; (2) the maximum amount to be provided in obligational authority in each appropriation bill or resolution and in such other legislative provisions of obligational authority as may be specified, and the estimated budget outlay related to each, including those outlays from funds provided in prior years; and (3) a table showing the relationship of total estimated receipts as shown in (1) to the aggregate of the maximum amounts to be provided in obligational authority and the aggregate of the estimated budget outlays as shown in (2). Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution by the House. Provides that a conference report on a bill or resolution carrying appropriations or otherwise providing obligational authority shall require the approval of two-thirds of those Members present and voting, a quorum being present, if the effect of the adoption of the report would be to provide an amount in excess of that contained in the House-authorized Federal budget for such year. Provides that, within fifteen calendar days after adoption of the House-authorized Federal budget, the Committee on Ways and Means is authorized and directed to report a resolution containing recommendations as to the levels of public debt and aggregate Federal revenues necessitated by figures on outlays and receipts contained in the House-authorized Federal budget. Sets forth a procedure for the adoption of such resolution.