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Bill· HRH.R. 7434 (97th)referred

A bill to repeal certain changes made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to the extended unemployment compensation program, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 16 December 1982

Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to repeal specified changes to the extended unemployment compensation program. Repeals provisions of such Act relating to: (1) elimination of the national trigger; (2) exclusion of claims for extended or additional compensation in the determination of the insured unemployment rate; and (3) changes in the State trigger. Provides that the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 shall be applied as if the above provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act had not been enacted. Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to increase (from 50 to 75 percent) the percentage of sharable extended compensation and sharable regular compensation paid to individuals under State law which is reimbursed to States by the Federal Government.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 513 (97th)open

A resolution reaffirming Congress' commitment to reduce the Federal budget.

United States · United States Congress · 10 December 1982

Reaffirms the congressional commitment to reduce the Federal deficit. Declares that Congress expects the Appropriations Committee and the appropriate authorizing committees to take necessary action to limit increased expenditures under legislation described in S. Res. 507 to the net increase in revenues received as a result of such legislation.

Bill· HRH.R. 7291 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to strengthen the budget process, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Declares that it is the purpose of this Act to insure that Congress considers every year a budget in which the expenditures and receipts are in balance. Requires the House Committee on Government Operations and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs to undertake independent studies of: (1) the accounting and budgetary system of states required by their constitutions to maintain balanced budgets; and (2) the impact of off-budget activities on the budget process. Requires such committees to recommend appropriate changes to the Federal accounting and budgetary system necessary to operate under a Federal balanced budget framework. Title I: Amendments to the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require that the budget submitted by the President for the ensuing fiscal year set forth a recommended level of estimated expenditures which does not exceed the Government's estimated receipts. Permits the President, for reasons of national security or economic necessity, to submit two budgets only one of which is in compliance with the balanced budget requirement. Title II: Amendments to Congressional Budget Act of 1974 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the concurrent resolution on the budget submitted by the Budget Committees of each House to be balanced. Exempts the committees from such requirement if they determine that it is infeasible. Permits, in such event, the submission of two budgets only one of which is in compliance with the balanced budget requirement. Title III: Effective Date - Makes this Act effective for FY 1984. Requires it to be fully reflected in the FY 1984 budget submitted by the President in January 1983.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 624 (97th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal budget procedures.

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1982

Constitutional Amendment - Requires Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement of receipts and outlays for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote directed solely to that subject. Prohibits total receipts for any fiscal year set forth in such statement from increasing by a rate greater than the rate of increase in national income in the last calendar year ending before such fiscal year, unless Congress passes a bill directed solely to approving specific additional receipts and such bill has become law. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act with respect to any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect. Declares that total receipts shall include all receipts of the United States, except those derived from borrowing, and total outlays shall include all outlays of the United States except those for repayment of debt principal.

Bill· HRH.R. 7240 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to improve the congressional budget process, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Title I: Revisions of the Congressional Budget Process - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the first concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to set forth the budgets for each of the next two ensuing fiscal years. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require that the presidential budget set forth an explanation and summary of the differences between it and the congressional budget contained in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for the annual adoption of one concurrent resolution on the budget. Repeals the requirement of a second concurrent resolution on the budget. Allows the Committees on the Budget of the two Houses of Congress to confer and reach agreement on reestimates to the most recent budget resolution. Requires such Committees to jointly publish a report explaining the nature of the reestimates. Revises the reconciliation process to include reconciliation directions if needed in the first budget resolution. Requires completion of the reconciliation process within 60 days. Makes the budget resolution binding. Reforms the appropriations process. Requires Congress on or before September 30 of each year to complete action on an omnibus appropriation bill. Provides that the appropriation bill shall contain all regular appropriations for the fiscal year and not be subject to deferred enrollment. Provides for automatic continuing appropriations if by the beginning of the fiscal year no sums have been appropriated for that year for programs, projects, or activities for which sums were appropriated for the preceding year. Requires the Joint Economic Committee (Committee) to transmit to each House of Congress periodic reports containing its recommendations for amending laws which provide spending authority. Directs the Committee to establish a timetable for reviewing all programs which provide entitlement authority and for reporting to each House of Congress. Title II: Federal Credit Activities - Directs the Council of Economic Advisers, in its annual report to the Congress, to examine the relationship between Federal credit activity during the previous year and: (1) the condition of the economy; (2) the availability and cost of credit in the private sector; and (3) the exercise of monetary and fiscal policy by the Federal government. Amends the Federal Reserve Act to direct the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in their biannual reports to Congress concerning recent developments affecting economic trends in the Nation, to examine the effects of Federal credit activity on the availability and cost of credit in the private sector and on the exercise of monetary policy by the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the President, in the annual budget statement to the Congress, to include all essential facts regarding direct Government loans and loan guarantees. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the concurrent resolution on the budget for each fiscal year to set forth the appropriate level of total gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans and the appropriate level of total commitments to guarantee loans, and to allocate such totals among the major functional categories of the budget. Directs each standing committee of the House and Senate to submit its estimates of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments provided for in legislation under its jurisdiction by March 15 of each year for the consideration of the Budget Committee in formulating the budget resolution. Directs the House and Senate Banking Committees to submit recommendations to the Budget Committees for the aggregate levels of direct loans and loan guarantees in each fiscal year. Requires the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on the budget resolution to include an estimate allocation of the total levels of direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments among the committees of the House and Senate. Directs the Committees on Appropriations to provide such an allocation among their subcommittees as soon as practicable after a budget resolution has been agreed to. Requires the House Committee on Appropriations, before reporting any regular appropriations bills, to submit a summary report to the House comparing the credit authority contained in such bills to the levels agreed to in the budget resolution. Requires any report accompanying legislation conferring new budget authority or increasing tax expenditures to include information on direct loan obligations and loan guarantee commitments. Establishes a deadline for the completion of action on legislation providing credit authority. Requires the reconciliation process to take into account Federal obligations and commitments on loans and loan guarantees. Declares out of order any measure brought up for consideration in either House which would increase the level of loan obligations and guarantee commitments agreed to in the budget process without limiting such increase to amounts provided in appropriation Acts. Amends rule X of the Rules of the House of Representatives to require each standing committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on the Budget) to review and make appropriate recommendations with respect to the consistency and uniformity of the different definitions, default provisions, policies, interest rates, and other terms and conditions relating to direct loan, loan insurance, and loan guarantee activities included in any laws of which the subject matter is within the jurisdiction of that committee. Title III: Off-Budget Federal Entities - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to make off-budget Federal entities a part of the unified budget. Title IV: Capital Investment Budget - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, to require the President to include with each Budget submitted on or after January 1, 1983, a special analysis for the ensuing fiscal year which shall identify and summarize for each function, category, agency, and program of appropriation and expenditure in the Budget the amount of appropriations and expenditures which may be classified as public infrastructure investments. Sets forth other information to be included in such analysis. Requires the President also to include with each Budget, on or after January 1, 1984, a capital investment budget which shall identify by State the amount of appropriations and expenditures classifiable as public infrastructure investments. Declares that any appropriation or expenditure shall be classified as a public infrastructure investment to the extent that it will be used for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of any civilian public facility in the United States. Amends the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to require the Economic Development Administration to prepare an inventory of civilian public facilities in the United States and an assessment of their physical condition. Requires the Secretary to make a report of such inventory and assessment to Congress not later than January 1, 1984, and to update such report annually. Title V: Impoundment Control of Loans and Loan Guarantees - Amends the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to extend impoundment control to direct loans and loan guarantees. Title VI: Impoundment Control Reform and Clarifications - Makes technical amendments to the Impoundment Control Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7239 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit the Federal deficit over a three-year period to specified percentages of the projected gross national product.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to limit, beginning in calendar year 1983, the total amount of Federal deficit agreed to in the first concurrent resolution on the budget, or any subsequent resolution, to a specified percentage of the projected gross national product (GNP) for FY 1984-1985, unless waived by a two-thirds vote in each House of Congress. Sets such percentages at three percent for FY 1984, two percent for FY 1985, and one percent for FY 1986. Requires the Committee on the Budget of each House to report to its House on the feasibility of enacting a budget for FY 1987 in which the total Federal outlays do not exceed total Federal receipts. Requires such committees, if they recommend that total Federal outlays exceed total Federal receipts, also to recommend a specific percentage of gross national product that the Federal deficit shall be limited to for FY 1987 and the next three succeeding fiscal years.

Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 617 (97th)referred

A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution altering Federal Budget procedures.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1982

Constitutional Amendment - Requires the President to submit and Congress to adopt, before each fiscal year, a statement for that year in which total outlays are no greater than total receipts. Permits Congress in such statement to provide for a specific excess of outlays over receipts by a three-fifths vote of each House directed solely to that subject. Requires that the names of those voting be entered into the journal of each House. Permits Congress to waive the provisions of this Act in any fiscal year in which a declaration of war is in effect or a national emergency exists. Prohibits reductions in outlays in such statement resulting from any amendment to the Social Security Act which reduce entitlement benefits. States that outlays for social insurance and national defense shall take priority and grants to governmental entities with taxing power shall be reduced before other outlays. Allows Congress to establish a separate statement of outlays for capital expenditures, which may be financed through the issuance of bonds. Limits judicial power with respect to actions arising under this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7215 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that certain amendments made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to the extended unemployment compensation program shall not affect the amount of benefits payable under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.

United States · United States Congress · 29 September 1982

Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to declare that the Employment Security Amendments of 1970 shall be applied without regard to certain amendments made by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 relating to unemployment compensation.

Bill· HRH.R. 7149 (97th)referred

A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to strengthen the budget process, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 21 September 1982

Directs the Committee on Governmental Operations of the House and the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate to study: (1) the budgetary systems of States required to maintain balanced budgets; and (2) the impact of off-budget activities on the Federal budget process. Requires that such Committees recommend changes to the Federal budget system necessary for a balanced budget framework. Title I: Amendments to Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 - Amends the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 to require that any budget submitted to Congress by the President shall set forth a level of estimated expenditures which do not exceed receipts. Provides that the President, for reasons of national security or economic necessity, may submit two budgets, only one of which is balanced. Title II: Amendments to Congressional Budget Act of 1974 - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to provide for the annual adoption of one concurrent resolution on the budget. Requires the submission of balanced budgets by the Committees on the Budget of each House. Allows the Committees to submit two budgets, only one of which is balanced, if the Committees find it infeasible to submit a complying budget. Repeals provisions which require a second concurrent resolution on the budget. Revises certain reconciliation procedures. Provides that the budget resolution shall be binding unless waived by a three- fifths vote in either House of Congress. Requires the chairmen of the House and Senate Budget Committees and a Presidential appointee to meet and agree upon common economic and technical estimating assumptions to be used for preparation of the President's budget proposal. Title III: Technical and Conforming Amendments - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, and the Rules of the House of Representatives to make technical and conforming changes. Title IV: Effective Date - Sets forth the effective dates for this Act.

Bill· HRH.R. 7141 (97th)referred

A bill to repeal the provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 which provides for reductions in civil service pay in the case of individuals receiving cost-of-living increases in military retired or retainer pay.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1982

Repeals specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 which reduce the pay of members or former members of the uniformed services holding Federal civilian positions by the amount of any cost of living increase in their retired or retainer pay during FY 1983 through 1985.

Bill· HRH.R. 7142 (97th)referred

A bill to repeal the provision of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 which provides that civil service retirees under age 62 at the time of a cost-of-living adjustment receive only one-half of such adjustment.

United States · United States Congress · 20 September 1982

Repeals specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1982 which require reduced cost of living increases in the annuities or retired or retainer pay of Federal retirees who are under 62 years old.

Bill· SS. 2921 (97th)referred

Balanced Budget Enforcement Act of 1982

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1982

Balanced Budget Enforcement Act of 1982 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to name title XI of such Act the Regulatory Budget Act of 1982. Includes the achievement of a balanced Federal budget under most economic circumstances and the control of Federal credit activities as purposes of such Act. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office or the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and of the House, in determining current law budget authority, outlays, and spending authority for a fiscal year, to: (1) include adjustments for additional costs, workloads, or utilizations only if such adjustments, and the budget authority and spending authority for them, are provided by statute at the time such determinations are made; and (2) assume that new budget authority will be enacted for programs or activities for a fiscal year in an amount equal to that authorized for the prior fiscal year, when no such authority has yet been enacted. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to change the annual reporting date for the Congressional Budget Office to March 1. Requires such report to include five-year estimates of credit activity and of the ratio of outlays and revenues to the gross national product. Amends the budget timetable to make July 15 the date for Congress to complete action on the deficit reduction bill. Eliminates any second concurrent resolution on the budget and any reconciliation bill. Requires the concurrent resolution on the budget to be for the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of the year in which it is adopted and each of the four succeeding fiscal years. Sets forth information to be included in such resolution, excluding a deficit except under special conditions. Permits the Committees on the Budget of the House and the Senate, to report deficit reduction legislation if other committees fail to meet their deficit reduction directions by specified dates. Prohibits a deficit reduction bill or resolution from containing provisions which: (1) decrease the total amount of Federal revenues for a fiscal year below the level of current law revenues; or (2) accomplish decreases in outlays in one fiscal year by postponing such outlays to one or more succeeding fiscal years. Excludes provisions which are predominantly nonbudgetary in nature. Requires Congress to complete action on any deficit reduction bill or resolution by July 15 of each year. Permits floor amendments to propose alternative deficit reduction legislation. Requires the concurrent resolution on the budget to include a regulatory budget. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require the budget resolution to be balanced. Makes it out of order in either the House or the Senate to consider any budget resolution for any fiscal year beginning FY 1984, or amendment to it or conference report, which would cause outlays to exceed revenues. Prohibits the recommended level of Federal revenues set forth in a budget resolution from exceeding a certain ratio to the gross national product determined according to a specified formula. Allows either the House or the Senate Budget Committee to report, and Congress to pass, a separate concurrent resolution setting forth a level of Federal revenues higher than that determined according to such formula. Declares that the determination of outlays, revenues, and gross national product shall be made on the basis of estimates made by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Makes such balanced budget provisions inapplicable in time of war. Provides for a waiver of such requirements in time of recession by a majority roll call vote. Requires that any surplus in the budget be used to pay back any recession-based deficits, plus interest. Requires a revised budget resolution with a deficit reduction bill if mid-year re-estimates show unanticipated deficit. Requires, to the extent that the deficit cannot be eliminated in the current year, that the next year's budget resolution contain a provision instructing the appropriate committees to report temporary increases in revenues sufficient to pay off such debt. Requires expenditures and revenues, including outlays for credit activities, to be included in the budget resolution estimates. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require that the budget submitted by the President include budget authority, direct loans, and commitments to guarantee loan principal, and estimates of outlays and receipts for all activities of all departments, agencies, establishments, and instrumentalities of the Federal government. Requires the Committee on Appropriations of each House to subdivide among its subcommittees its allocation of gross obligations for direct loans and loan guarantee commitments. Permits revisions of the budget resolution to include changes in the deficit reduction instructions. Makes it out of order in either House to consider any resolution providing for the adjournment sine die of either House unless: (1) action has been completed on the budget resolution and, if a deficit reduction bill or resolution is required to be reported, unless the action has been completed on those measures; (2) action has been completed on all continuing appropriation bills and resolutions; and (3) the Committees on the Budget of the House and Senate have each reported a notice certifying that the total amounts of new budget authority and budget outlays comply with the specified allocations of such authority and outlays among the congressional committees. Sets forth limitations on legislation providing authority to make direct loans or to guarantee loan principal. Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to add a Title XI: Regulatory Budget Procedure. Requires the President to establish criteria and methods for determining the costs of compliance with agency rules and regulations. Requires the head of each Federal agency to report annually to the Office of Management and Budget on such costs. Directs the President to include in his Budget for each fiscal year a regulatory budget for each agency recommending maximum compliance costs for such year. Requires all new legislation to be within the regulatory budget. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to require the President's budget to conform to this Act.

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