[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1126 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1126

  To limit the annual growth in overhead of Executive agencies of the 
              Government beginning with fiscal year 1995.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 1993

   Mr. Santorum (for himself, Mr. Inglis of South Carolina, and Mr. 
  Doolittle) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Government Operations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To limit the annual growth in overhead of Executive agencies of the 
              Government beginning with fiscal year 1995.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Overhead Reduction Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF OVERHEAD OF AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS OF THE 
              GOVERNMENT.

    (a) Computation of Overhead Ratios.--The head of each Executive 
agency of the Government is authorized and directed to--
            (1) identify and designate in the agency's budget any 
        expenditures for overhead; and
            (2) compute the agency's overhead ratio as follows: the 
        overhead ratio is the value of a fraction the numerator of 
        which is the annualized average of total overhead expenses for 
        fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 1993 and the denominator of which 
        is one-third of the total amount of salaries paid to its 
        employees (including contract employees) working on Government 
        premises during those fiscal years.
    (b) Inclusion in President's Annual Budget Submissions.--In each 
annual budget prepared by the head of any Executive agency for 
inclusion in the President's budget submission under section 1105(a) of 
title 31, United States Code, beginning with the February 1994 
submission, and for each of the 4 ensuing fiscal years, the annual 
budget prepared by the head shall reduce the agency's overhead ratio by 
6 percentage points.
    (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act--
            (1) the term ``Executive agency'' has the meaning given 
        that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, except 
        that the term does not include the Department of Defense; and
            (2) the term ``overhead'' means the expenditures of an 
        Executive agency required for the support and utilization of 
        its personnel after deducting its expenditures for salaries 
        (including contract employees), benefits, and travel.

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