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<title>To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.</title>
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<action-date>2013-07-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of specified congressional committees, to determine if a proposed measure would result in reductions in budget outlays in budgetary outyears through the use of preventive health and preventive health services.</p> <p>Requires CBO, if the measure would result in such substantial reductions, to include in any CBO projection a description and estimate of such reductions and a description of the basis for such conclusions.</p> <p>Authorizes CBO to prepare a budget projection that includes some or all of the budgetary outyears.</p>]]></summary-text>
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