HR 1065 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2017

Introduced Feb 15, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Luke Messer R-IN

Latest action · Feb 15, 2017 Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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.

IntroducedFeb 15, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2017

This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Congressional Budget Impoundment and Control Act of 1974, and the Rules of the House of Representatives to change the process for the President's budget submission, congressional budget resolutions, appropriations bills, and government strategic and performance plans from the current annual process to a biennial process, in which a biennium is the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.

The House Budget Committee must use the second session of each Congress to study issues with long-term budgetary and economic implications.

The bill creates a point of order in the House and Senate against authorizations of appropriations that do not include specific authorizations covering at least each fiscal year in one or more bienniums.

Cosponsors 60

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 15, 2017 to Jan 8, 2018; 47 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
R-WV	Alexander X. Mooney	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-TX	Beto O'Rourke	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-VA	Bob Goodlatte	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-KY	Brett Guthrie	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NY	Chris Collins	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-FL	Darren Soto	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-TN	David P. Roe	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NY	Elise M. Stefanik	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-CA	Eric Swalwell	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-WI	F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NJ	Frank A. LoBiondo	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-MI	Fred Upton	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-AR	J. French Hill	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-IN	Jackie Walorski	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-TN	Jim Cooper	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-MD	John K. Delaney	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NY	John Katko	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-OR	Kurt Schrader	Original	Feb 15, 2017
I-AZ	Kyrsten Sinema	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-IN	Larry Bucshon	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NY	Lee M. Zeldin	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-TX	Louie Gohmert	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-KS	Lynn Jenkins	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-CA	Mark DeSaulnier	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-TN	Marsha Blackburn	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-PA	Matt Cartwright	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-NM	Michelle Lujan Grisham	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-IL	Mike Bost	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-CA	Paul Cook	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-IL	Randy Hultgren	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NC	Robert Pittenger	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-IL	Rodney Davis	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-KS	Roger Marshall	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-PA	Ryan A. Costello	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-TN	Scott DesJarlais	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-CA	Scott H. Peters	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-WI	Sean P. Duffy	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-MA	Seth Moulton	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-OK	Steve Russell	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-OH	Steve Stivers	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-MN	Timothy J. Walz	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-AZ	Trent Franks	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-HI	Tulsi Gabbard	Original	Feb 15, 2017
R-NC	Walter B. Jones	Original	Feb 15, 2017
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Feb 16, 2017
R-SC	Mark Sanford		Apr 24, 2017
R-PA	Lloyd Smucker		Apr 27, 2017
R-OH	Jim Jordan		May 2, 2017
D-CT	Elizabeth H. Esty		May 3, 2017
R-WI	Mike Gallagher		May 3, 2017
R-MI	Tim Walberg		May 16, 2017
R-MI	David A. Trott		May 24, 2017
R-FL	Carlos Curbelo		Jul 13, 2017
R-SC	Ralph Norman		Jul 14, 2017
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Sep 5, 2017
R-NY	Daniel M. Donovan, Jr.		Sep 5, 2017
D-CA	Raul Ruiz		Jan 8, 2018

Committees 3

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Budget Committee	Referred Feb 15, 2017
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred Feb 15, 2017
House	Rules Committee	Referred Feb 15, 2017

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Feb 15, 2017Introduced in House
Feb 15, 2017Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and 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

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, section 9, clause 7 of the United States Constitution.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 27, February 15, 2017, page H1244.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 5214	Protecting Our Children's Future Act of 2018	Related bill	Mar 8, 2018

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To establish biennial budgets for the United States Government.
Short Titles as Introduced: Biennial Budgeting and Enhanced Oversight Act of 2017

Subjects

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

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Feb 15, 2017Introduced in House

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