[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3787 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3787

 To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a jobs score 
             for each spending bill considered in Congress.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 18, 2012

Mr. Cicilline (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, and Mr. 
  McDermott) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require a jobs score 
             for each spending bill considered in Congress.

    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 ``Jobs Score Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974.

    Section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) 
is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'';
            (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following:
            ``(4) an estimate of the number of jobs which would be 
        created, sustained, or lost in carrying out such bill or 
        resolution in the fiscal year in which it is to become 
        effective and in each of the 4 fiscal years following such 
        fiscal year, together with the basis for each such estimate, 
        and to the extent practicable, the analysis shall include 
        regional and State-level estimates of jobs that would be 
        created, sustained, or lost.''.
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