Require a PLAN Act
Latest action · Feb 7, 2013 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 1, 2013
- Passed HouseFeb 6, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Require Presidential Leadership and No Deficit Act or Require a PLAN Act - Directs the President, if his budget for FY2014, as submitted to Congress, results in a projected deficit in every fiscal year for which estimates are provided in it, to submit by April 1, 2013, a supplemental unified budget (the total level of outlays, total level of receipts, and the resulting deficit or surplus of the U.S. government for a fiscal year).
Requires a supplemental unified budget to include:
- the information required by law for the President's budget,
- an estimate of the earliest fiscal year in which the supplemental budget is not projected to result in a deficit,
- a detailed description of additional policies to be implemented in order to achieve such result (including an evaluation of duplicative agency functions and agency effectiveness, and proposals for consolidating duplicative functions and programs between agencies in the interests of cost-savings),
- an explanation of the differences between the President's original FY2014 budget and the supplemental unified budget, and
- an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the annual deficit for each year in which the supplemental unified budget is projected to result in a deficit.
Requires the unified budget to include, under a separate heading entitled "Direct Spending," a category for "Means-Tested Direct Spending and a category for "Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending" which specify:
- the average rate of growth for each category in the total amount of outlays during the 10-year period preceding the budget year,
- information on the budget proposals for reform of such programs,
- a description of programs which shall be considered means-tested direct spending and nonmeans-tested direct spending, and
- an annual estimate of the total amount of outlays for each such program for the period covered by the budget proposal.
Recorded votes 4
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 38 | On Passage | Passed253–167 | Feb 6, 2013 |
| House 37 | On Motion to Recommit with Instructions | Failed194–229 | Feb 6, 2013 |
| House 36 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed75–348 | Feb 6, 2013 |
| House 35 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed194–228 | Feb 6, 2013 |
Cosponsors 83
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 1, 2013 to Feb 5, 2013, with 3 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-KS | Lynn Jenkins | Original | Feb 1, 2013 |
| R-WI | Paul D. Ryan | Original | Feb 1, 2013 |
| R-TX | Pete Sessions | Original | Feb 1, 2013 |
| R-MS | Alan Nunnelee | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-KY | Andy Barr | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-GA | Austin Scott | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-MI | Bill Huizenga | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-MO | Blaine Luetkemeyer | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-UT | Chris Stewart | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-WV | David B. McKinley | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-OH | David P. Joyce | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-AZ | David Schweikert | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-FL | Dennis A. Ross | Feb 4, 2013 | |
| R-TN | Diane Black | Feb 4, 2013 |
Actions 38
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 7, 2013Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
- Feb 6, 2013Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 444 as unfinished business.
- Feb 6, 2013Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H377-390; text of measure as introduced: CR H383)
- Feb 6, 2013Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H391-394)
- Feb 6, 2013DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Fleming amendment.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 48 | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 444) to require that, if the President's fiscal year 2014 budget does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such budget, the President shall submit a supplemental unified budget by April 1, 2013, whi | Procedurally related | Feb 5, 2013 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
Text 3
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 7, 2013Referred in Senate
- Feb 6, 2013Engrossed in House
- Feb 1, 2013Introduced 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.