Spending Control Act of 2011
Latest action · Dec 7, 2011 Referred 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.
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.
- IntroducedDec 7, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Spending Control Act of 2011 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish for FY2013-FY2021: (1) direct spending limits, (2) total spending limits, and (3) deficit limits. Prescribes certain deficit control mechanisms (sequestration and reduction orders) for such period.
Requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to: (1) determine common scorekeeping guidelines, and (2) prepare estimates in conformance with such guidelines.
Requires OMB and CBO each to make annual comparisons for the current and the ten ensuing fiscal years of projected total deficits and specified deficit limits.
Repeals the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
Prescribes and/or revises requirements for direct, total, and deficit sequestration preview and final reports. Eliminates Pay-As-You-Go reports.
Adds the following programs and activities to the list exempted from sequestration orders: (1) obligated balances of budget authority carried over from prior fiscal years; (2) federal obligations required to be paid under the U.S. Constitution or legally contractual obligations; (3) Claims, Judgments, and Relief Acts (20-1895-0-1-808); and (4) intragovernmental transfers.
Modifies and/or repeals certain mandatory general and special sequestration rules.
Requires an appropriate adjustment for the discretionary spending limit of an outyear if an appropriation for the budget year causes a change in direct spending in that outyear.
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA) to: (1) repeal the current requirement for adjusting the allocation of discretionary spending in the House of Representatives if a budget resolution is not adopted by April 15, and (2) allow the joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on a budget resolution to include an allocation of the level for the global war on terrorism (GWOT) for that fiscal year.
Prescribes administrative and legislative procedures for emergency and GWOT adjustments.
Amends the CBA to make it out of order in both chambers to consider legislation, if the provisions of such measure have the net effect of increasing direct spending for the current year, the budget year, and the four or nine fiscal years following that budget year. (Thus enforces Cut-As-You-Go.)
Repeals Clause 10 of Rule XXI (Restrictions on Certain Bills) of the Rules of the House of Representatives.
Amends the CBA to permit waiver or suspension in the Senate of certain prohibitions under such Act and the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, or successful appeals from rulings of the Chair, only by an affirmative vote of three-fifths (60) of the Members.
Cosponsors 9
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 7, 2011 to Feb 9, 2012; 6 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NH | Frank C. Guinta | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-UT | Jason Chaffetz | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-TX | Jeb Hensarling | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-IN | Marlin A. Stutzman | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-WI | Paul D. Ryan | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-IN | Todd Rokita | Original | Dec 7, 2011 |
| R-SC | Jeff Duncan | Dec 13, 2011 | |
| R-TX | Bill Flores | Dec 20, 2011 | |
| R-GA | Lynn A. Westmoreland | Feb 9, 2012 |
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 Dec 7, 2011 |
| House | Rules Committee | Referred Dec 7, 2011 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Dec 7, 2011Introduced in House
- Dec 7, 2011Referred 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.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H8261.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 112-26 | THE BROKEN BUDGET PROCESS: LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS68 pages | Budget Committee | May 31, 2012 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 3580 | Balancing Our Obligations for the Long-Term Act of 2011 | Related bill | Mar 29, 2012 |
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 establish spending limits and deficit control.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Spending Control Act of 2011
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Appropriations
- Budget deficits and national debt
- Budget process
- Congressional committees
- Disaster relief and insurance
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education programs funding
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Health programs administration and funding
- Higher education
- House Committee on the Budget
- Inflation and prices
- Legislative rules and procedure
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- Student aid and college costs
- Terrorism
- User charges and fees
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Dec 7, 2011Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
