3.0.0 382 2023-01-11T13:28:23Z 2023-01-11T13:28:23Z Senate S 2015-02-05 114 ssbu00 Budget Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-02-05T17:48:22Z 2015-02-05 ssbu00 Budget Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. IntroReferral 2015-02-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress A000368 Sen. Ayotte, Kelly [R-NH] Kelly Ayotte R NH N R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL 2015-02-05 True P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2015-02-05 True Economics and Public Finance Appropriations Budget deficits and national debt Budget process Health care costs and insurance Health programs administration and funding Inflation and prices Economics and Public Finance 00 2015-02-05 Introduced in Senate 2015-06-30T22:47:50Z Baseline Reform Act of 2015

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to change the assumptions used in calculating the baseline for discretionary spending and to require budget estimates to be compared with the levels from the prior year.

The baseline is a projection of federal spending and receipts during the fiscal year under current law. This bill changes the assumptions used for the discretionary spending baseline to eliminate adjustments required under current law for inflation, expiring housing contracts, social insurance administrative expenses, pay adjustments, and changes to other personnel benefits. The bill prohibits adjustments for inflation or any other factor.

The President's budget must include: (1) comparisons of the proposed budgetary levels with the prior year's levels, (2) the sources of growth in direct spending under current law and as proposed in the budget, and (3) estimates of discretionary spending for current programs that assume compliance with discretionary spending limits under current law.

The congressional budget committees must use budgetary levels from the prior fiscal year as the basis for deliberations in developing the congressional budget resolution and include comparisons with the prior fiscal year in the report accompanying the resolution.

The Congressional Budget Office must include additional details in required reports to Congress, including comparisons to the prior year and the sources of growth in spending.

]]> Baseline Reform Act of 2015 Display Title Baseline Reform Act of 2015 Official Title as Introduced A bill to eliminate the automatic inflation increases for discretionary programs built into the baseline projections and require budget estimates to be compared with prior year's level. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Baseline Reform Act of 2015 Introduced in Senate 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s382is/xml/BILLS-114s382is.xml 2015-02-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.