A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish a Council on Economic Indicators and to provide for House and Senate approval of economic assumptions underlying the budget.

Summary

Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to establish the Council on Economic Indicators which shall transmit a report to the President and the Budget Committees of each House of Congress during the first 15 days of each regular session of Congress. Requires such report to contain the Council's estimates of the economic assumptions for the current calendar year and the calendar year immediately following the current calendar year. Requires each Budget Committee to report a resolution to its House, on or before March 1 of each year, containing the estimates of the Council for the current calendar year and the next calendar year, as affirmed or revised by the committee. Requires each House to have completed action on such resolutions not later than March 15 of each year.

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Timeline

1. 19 August 1982

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Rules.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 19 August 1982

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 19 August 1982

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 19 August 1982

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. Heftel, Cecil [D-HI-1] · D · Sponsor
• Rep. Hughes, William J. [D-NJ-2] · D · Sponsor
• · hsru00 · Standing

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