HR 522 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Balanced Budget Accountability Act

Introduced Feb 6, 2013 Originated House Sponsor Steve Daines R-MT

Fact sheet

Latest action · Feb 6, 2013 Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

  1. IntroducedFeb 6, 2013
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Balanced Budget Accountability Act - Requires each house of Congress to adopt a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year which provides that, for each fiscal year for which a budget is provided under the resolution (beginning by FY2023), total outlays do not exceed total receipts.

Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon the adoption by a chamber of a concurrent budget resolution for a fiscal year, to transmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or the President pro Tempore of the Senate (as the case may be) a certification as to whether or not that chamber has met the requirements of this Act with respect to the resolution.

Requires the appropriate payroll administrator of each chamber to deposit in an escrow account all mandatory payments for compensation of Members of Congress serving in that chamber if CBO does not certify that it has adopted a concurrent budget resolution for FY2015 before April 16, 2014.

Requires deposits to begin on such date and to be released to appropriate Members on the earlier of:

      • the day on which CBO certifies that the house of Congress has met the requirements of this Act with respect to FY2015, or
      • the last day of the 113th Congress.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2013 to Mar 24, 2014, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-INLuke MesserOriginalFeb 6, 2013
R-SCJeff DuncanFeb 5, 2014
R-ARTom CottonFeb 6, 2014
R-WYCynthia M. LummisFeb 11, 2014
R-TNDavid P. RoeFeb 11, 2014
R-CADoug LaMalfaFeb 11, 2014
R-NDKevin CramerFeb 11, 2014
R-NCMark MeadowsFeb 11, 2014
R-AZMatt SalmonFeb 11, 2014
R-FLTed S. YohoFeb 11, 2014
R-OHBrad R. WenstrupFeb 27, 2014
R-NCRobert PittengerFeb 27, 2014
R-INTodd RokitaFeb 27, 2014
R-FLBill PoseyMar 6, 2014
R-VABob GoodlatteMar 6, 2014
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Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House
  2. Feb 6, 2013Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.

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  1. Feb 6, 2013Introduced in House

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