[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 776 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 776

     To provide for consistency in National Aeronautics and Space 
                       Administration budgeting.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                April 7 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

   Mr. Cohen introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for consistency in National Aeronautics and Space 
                       Administration budgeting.

    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 ``National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration Consistency in Budgeting Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM PLAN.

    The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451 et 
seq.) is amended by inserting immediately after section 206 the 
following new section:

``SEC. 206A. CONSISTENCY IN BUDGETING: THE FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM PLAN.

    ``(a) In General.--The Administrator shall submit to Congress each 
year, not later than 30 days after the date on which the President's 
budget is submitted to Congress (in accordance with the provisions of 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code), a 5-year program plan 
reflecting the expenditures and proposed appropriations included in the 
President's budget.
    ``(b) Consistency of Amounts.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Administrator shall ensure that the 
        amounts described in paragraph (2)(A) for any fiscal year are 
        consistent with amounts described in paragraph (2)(B) for that 
        fiscal year.
            ``(2) Amounts described.--The amounts referred to in 
        paragraph (1) are--
                    ``(A) the amounts specified in program and budget 
                information submitted to Congress by the Administrator 
                in support of expenditure estimates and proposed 
                appropriations in the President's budget (submitted in 
                accordance with the provisions of 1105(a) of title 31, 
                United States Code) for any fiscal year, as shown in 
                the 5-year program plan submitted pursuant to 
                subsection (a); and
                    ``(B) the total amounts of estimated expenditures 
                and proposed appropriations necessary to support the 
                programs, projects, and activities of the 
                Administration, included pursuant to section 1105(a)(5) 
                of title 31, United States Code, in the President's 
                budget submitted to Congress under that section for any 
                fiscal year.''

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