Common Sense Spending Act
Latest action · Sep 9, 2003 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 11, 2003
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Common Sense Spending Act - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to extend discretionary spending limits through FY 2008.
Repeals requirements for adjustments to discretionary limits for: (1) continuing disability reviews by the Social Security Administration; (2) specified allowances for the International Monetary Fund and international arrearages; (3) any earned income tax credit compliance initiative; (4) adoption incentive payments; and (5) conservation spending.
Requires an adjustment to discretionary spending limits equal to the estimated resulting reduction in mandatory budget authority and outlays utilizing accrual methods, if enacted legislation charges Federal agencies for the full cost of accrued Federal retirement and health benefits, and an appropriations Act provides new budget authority to carry out such legislation.
Repeals the exemption of appropriations to cover agricultural crop disaster assistance from the application of mandatory adjustments in discretionary spending limits in a sequestration report and subsequent budgets for emergency appropriations for discretionary accounts. (Thus applies such mandatory adjustments in the total amount of emergency appropriations to appropriations covering agricultural crop disaster assistance.)
Revises PAYGO requirements to remove receipts from the requirement that any legislation enacted before FY 2009 affecting direct spending (currently, direct spending and receipts) that increases the deficit will trigger an offsetting sequestration. Revises the formula for calculating the amount of deficit increase or decrease by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
States that, with respect to eliminating a deficit increase, accounts shall be assumed to be at the level in the baseline.
Revises the definition of baseline to exclude emergency appropriations and legislation.
Prohibits such emergency appropriations from being extended in the baseline.
Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to define: (1) "emergency" as an unanticipated situation that requires new budget authority and outlays (or new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom) for the prevention or mitigation of, or response to, loss of life or property, or a threat to national security; and (2) "unanticipated" as an underlying situation that is sudden, which means quickly coming into being or not building up over time, urgent, which means a pressing and compelling need requiring immediate action, unforeseen, which means not predicted or anticipated as an emerging need, and temporary, which means not of a permanent duration.
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require that the committee report and any statement of managers accompanying proposed legislation analyze whether a proposed emergency requirement meets such definition of "emergency." Prohibits the consideration of any such legislation that does not meet this "emergency" definition.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 11, 2003 to May 7, 2003; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-FL | Ginny Brown-Waite | Original | Mar 11, 2003 |
| R-SC | Jim DeMint | Original | Mar 11, 2003 |
| R-WI | Mark Green | Original | Mar 11, 2003 |
| R-CO | Bob Beauprez | Mar 13, 2003 | |
| R-TX | Jeb Hensarling | Mar 13, 2003 | |
| R-PA | Joseph R. Pitts | Mar 13, 2003 | |
| R-FL | Mario Diaz-Balart | Mar 19, 2003 | |
| R-FL | Jeff Miller | Apr 10, 2003 | |
| R-NJ | Scott Garrett | May 7, 2003 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Budget Committee | Referred Mar 11, 2003 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Mar 11, 2003 |
| Legislative and Budget Process Subcommittee | Referred Sep 9, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 9, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on the Legislative and Budget Process.
- Mar 11, 2003Introduced in House
- Mar 11, 2003Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to extend the discretionary spending limits through fiscal year 2008, to extend paygo for direct spending, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Common Sense Spending Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Accounting
- Adoption
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Appropriations
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Balanced budgets
- Budget deficits
- Budget reconciliation
- Budget resolutions
- Civil service retirement
- Congress
- Congressional budget
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Congressional voting
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Defense budgets
- Disaster relief
- Economic forecasting
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Emergency Management
- Expedited congressional procedure
- Families
- Federal budgets
- Federal employees
- Federally-guaranteed loans
- Foster home care
- Government employees' health insurance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government spending reductions
- Health
- Higher education
- House rules and procedure
- International Affairs
- Labor and Employment
- Legislation
- Legislative resolutions
- Medicare
- Senate rules and procedure
- Social Welfare
- Student loan funds
- Taxation
- Terrorism
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 11, 2003Introduced in House
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