112 S360 IS: Honest Expenditure Limitation Program Act of 2011
U.S. Senate
2011-02-16
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1.This Act may be cited as the
Honest Expenditure Limitation Program
Act of 2011
or the HELP Act
.
2.This Act shall expire at the end of fiscal
year 2021.
<enum>I</enum><header>Congressional
non-security discretionary spending limits</header>
<section id="HCFF0D20343944F9EB8CB499608C4BAFD"><enum>101.</enum><header>Non-security
discretionary spending limits</header>
<subsection id="id7A65710AF4064CE69FBD1DABAA5827CE"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In
general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Title III of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by inserting at the end the
following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H85FCEB02610E45EB90BAEC97DD76393" style="traditional">
<section id="H81D11A7195384C43B735CF4929EFC5F6"><enum>316.</enum><header>Non-security discretionary spending
limits</header><subsection commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="idE10B397963BA492E819C63F679889796"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Non-Security
discretionary spending limits</header><text>It shall not be in order in the
House of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution,
amendment, or conference report that includes any provision that would cause
the non-security discretionary spending limits as set forth in subsection (b)
to be exceeded.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H4FF5172E3A74476492BDE4B460AFDC45"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Limits</header><text>The
non-security discretionary spending limits are—</text>
<paragraph id="id28C444C9BAEA4EFF9A88ED071914AAB7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>for each of the
fiscal years 2011 through 2016, the levels provided for non-security
discretionary spending in fiscal year 2008; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id1DA7EA6E239F408EADAFABC34735F101"><enum>(2)</enum><text>for fiscal years
2017 through 2021, the amount described in paragraph (1) adjusted annually for
inflation by the CPI.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="idB274229F985344C79311E62E912E4680"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Non-Security
spending</header><text>In this section, the term <term>non-security
discretionary spending</term> means discretionary spending other than spending
for the Department of Defense, homeland security activities, intelligence
related activities within the Department of State, the Department of Veterans
Affairs, and national security related activities in the Department of
Energy.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="idB5EC9D2BEA2246E1979A48C7093D65E4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limitations on
changes to this section</header><text>It shall not be in order in the Senate or
the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or
conference report that would—</text>
<paragraph id="idB74E7C1AB8804178862D3ED6C74977B5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>repeal or
otherwise change this section; or</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="id88A001D596C04A8B8E40A67EB610F142"><enum>(2)</enum><text>exempt any new
budget authority, outlays, and receipts from being counted for purposes of this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="id794CC66BB7F540DDA847E88F927EFE22"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Point of order
in the Senate</header>
<paragraph id="idB9E78B5AE84B4B799F8108452474579B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Waiver</header><text>The
provisions of this section shall be waived or suspended in the Senate
only—</text>
<subparagraph id="id7303DE07103C440DA44273020E8FEF32"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by the
affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members, duly chosen and sworn; or</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="id379FBF7C52E04FAA93E9FB6718B22EA1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in the case of
the defense budget authority, if Congress declares war or authorizes the use of
force.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="idC47B7379A92E4231878BFCE29E41A71D"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Appeal</header><text>Appeals
in the Senate from the decisions of the Chair relating to any provision of this
section shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and
controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the measure. An affirmative
vote of two-thirds of the Members of the Senate, duly chosen and sworn, shall
be required to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order
raised under this
section.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H10077941F5E5433096E5854F87DC95E7"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Table of
Contents</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The table of
contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment
Control Act of 1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section
315 the following new item:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="idFC6D0575BB3B42E0A37ACB55B4133F34" style="OLC">
<toc regeneration="no-regeneration">
<toc-entry bold="off" level="section">Sec. 316. Non-security
discretionary spending
limits.</toc-entry>
</toc>
<after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Statutory
non-security discretionary spending limits </header>
<subtitle id="idD5EC678C712E490DB0D8E8E865843937"><enum>A</enum><header>Definitions,
administration, and sequestration</header>
<section id="ID54c6fb9ed5d94b03a6f279054ea42da6"><enum>211.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title:</text>
<paragraph id="ID3a5c45575d4a48bcbe8cb6fb015bbf55"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Account</header><text>The
term <term>account</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID06f23489d818473383a41d71cf1dba2e"><enum>(A)</enum><text>for discretionary
budget authority, an item for which appropriations are made in any
appropriation Act; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDbef328bcbf4d4a039b616de0b8f7e6ec"><enum>(B)</enum><text>for items not
provided for in appropriation Acts, direct spending and outlays therefrom
identified in the program and finance schedules contained in the appendix to
the Budget of the United States for the current year.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDea5569a820fd46a3a5a1596539de09b7"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Breach</header><text>The
term <term>breach</term> means, for any fiscal year, the amount by which
discretionary budget authority enacted for that year exceeds the spending limit
for budget authority for that year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID22b9cbabc385478389a21bc9c89be859"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Budget
authority; new budget authority; and outlays</header><text>The terms
<term>budget authority</term>, <term>new budget authority</term>, and
<term>outlays</term> have the meanings given to such terms in section 3 of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/2/622">2 U.S.C. 622</external-xref>).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDfaeed45060464e779a4403593090be36"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Budget
year</header><text>The term <term>budget year</term> means, with respect to a
session of Congress, the fiscal year of the Government that starts on October 1
of the calendar year in which that session begins.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID69fb1171ea864f14ab9155f5e97e38b1"><enum>(5)</enum><header>CBO</header><text>The
term <term>CBO</term> means the Director of the Congressional Budget
Office.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDad5c9ed9a6234e6d8e400ebfa2b95ac5"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Current</header><text>The
term <term>current</term> means—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID84b979524223442b8f281ee70bab1d94"><enum>(A)</enum><text>with respect to
the Office of Management and Budget estimates included with a budget submission
under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1105">section 1105(a)</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code, the estimates consistent
with the economic and technical assumptions underlying that budget;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID8f0d37089f104966be32c11919bf247d"><enum>(B)</enum><text>with respect to
estimates made after that budget submission that are not included with it, the
estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying the
most recently submitted President’s budget; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDcab5fa0d67334e6dacc83cfe23b027da"><enum>(C)</enum><text>with respect to
the Congressional Budget Office, estimates consistent with the economic and
technical assumptions as required by section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="IDba82cc601b8f4308b60e18ea1e05d743"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Current
year</header><text>The term <term>current year</term> means, with respect to a
budget year, the fiscal year that immediately precedes that budget year.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID46d411a2c7e54092aae0685a316d3a1b"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Discretionary
appropriations and discretionary budget authority</header><text>The terms
<term>discretionary appropriations</term> and <term>discretionary budget
authority</term> shall have the meaning given such terms in section 3(4) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDa4762554c5c1472eb0a58e13a32b1c04"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Non-security
discretionary spending limit</header><text>The term <term>non-security
discretionary spending limit</term> shall mean the amounts specified in section
222.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID36491359968f4314ac6ead770bb329cd"><enum>(10)</enum><header>OMB</header><text>The
term <term>OMB</term> means the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID66f8a07b5ef4492e8034978a810ac576"><enum>(11)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><text>The
term <term>sequestration</term> means the cancellation or reduction of budget
authority (except budget authority to fund mandatory programs) provided in
appropriation Acts.</text>
</paragraph></section><section id="id0D47166D6111411E8DA2835B7F21C3C8"><enum>212.</enum><header>Administration
and effect of sequestration</header>
<subsection id="idEC9EBF5CB02344ECA4910A878ABCB13D"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Timetable</header><text>The
timetable with respect to this title is as follows:</text>
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<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">On or before:</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">Action to be completed:</entry>
</row>
<row><entry colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">5 days before the President’s budget submission
required under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1105">section 1105</external-xref> of title 31, United States Code</entry><entry colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">CBO Discretionary Sequestration
Preview Report.</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">The
President’s budget submission</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">OMB Discretionary Sequestration Preview Report.</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">10 days
after end of session</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">CBO Final Discretionary Sequestration
Report.</entry>
</row>
<row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" stub-definition="txt-ldr" stub-hierarchy="1">15 days
after end of session</entry><entry align="left" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr">OMB Final Discretionary
Sequestration/Presidential Sequestration Order.</entry>
</row>
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</subsection><subsection id="ID4d4c369d68a0429b9533fe470831bf73"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Presidential
order</header>
<paragraph id="ID79c41ca747464bd28f4d85114e324e8b"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In
general</header><text>On the date specified in subsection (a), if in its Final
Sequestration Report, OMB estimates that any sequestration is required, the
President shall issue an order fully implementing without change all
sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in that report. This
order shall be effective on issuance.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID775f29837db0400a9646beffb3c3b156"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Special
rule</header><text>If the date specified for the submission of a Presidential
order under subsection (a) falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, such order shall
be issued on the following day.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDd9410e67d41240df91ce901c0820bc0d"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effects of
sequestration</header><text>The effects of sequestration shall be as
follows:</text>
<paragraph id="IDa72e4adf622d420287fa4824c5d08fd9"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Budgetary
resources sequestered from any account shall be permanently cancelled, except
as provided in paragraph (5).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb58b6f7ed5d642fa99e21192fc61f903"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Except as
otherwise provided, the same percentage sequestration shall apply to all
programs, projects, and activities within a budget account (with programs,
projects, and activities as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying
report for the relevant fiscal year covering that account).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID6dbd27008d1a4ea691e41f0c39c08153"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Administrative
regulations or similar actions implementing a sequestration shall be made
within 120 days of the sequestration order. To the extent that formula
allocations differ at different levels of budgetary resources within an
account, program, project, or activity, the sequestration shall be interpreted
as producing a lower total appropriation, with the remaining amount of the
appropriation being obligated in a manner consistent with program allocation
formulas in substantive law.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDdc70b53876274197b2b37e392d325f9a"><enum>(4)</enum><text>Except as
otherwise provided in this part, obligations or budgetary resources in
sequestered accounts shall be reduced only in the fiscal year in which a
sequester occurs.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID57b7abbafc6445cc9b2335538edf75d4"><enum>(5)</enum><text>Budgetary
resources sequestered in special fund accounts and offsetting collections
sequestered in appropriation accounts shall not be available for obligation
during the fiscal year in which the sequestration occurs, but shall be
available in subsequent years to the extent otherwise provided in law.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="IDf5a531b4501d4a81be1e73edd8f64e0b"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Submission and
availability of reports</header><text>Each report required by this section
shall be submitted, in the case of CBO, to the House of Representatives, the
Senate, and OMB and, in the case of OMB, to the House of Representatives, the
Senate, and the President on the day it is issued. On the following day a
notice of the report shall be printed in the Federal Register.</text>
</subsection></section></subtitle><subtitle id="id6417184E6C7A4EE6B04642363182824B"><enum>B</enum><header>Non-Security
discretionary spending limits</header>
<section id="ID24b4fb73430f4bffbbc1697c2545aa98"><enum>221.</enum><header>Discretionary
sequestration reports</header>
<subsection id="ID979923424ccb4026a799bd270a11fa58"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Discretionary
sequestration preview reports</header>
<paragraph id="IDcce9b90409494a4b9227f9875dddd6dc"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting
requirement</header><text>On the dates specified in section 212(a), OMB shall
report to the President and Congress and CBO shall report to Congress a
Discretionary Sequestration Preview Report regarding discretionary
sequestration based on laws enacted through those dates.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDc3dc6ab8ffca460f8f742178047452d2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Discretionary</header><text>The
Discretionary Sequestration Preview Report shall set forth estimates for the
current year and each subsequent year through 2021 of the applicable
discretionary spending limits and a projection of budget authority exceeding
discretionary limits subject to sequester.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDf124560454d74e04ad5a10e61751dc99"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Explanation of
differences</header><text>The OMB reports shall explain the differences between
OMB and CBO estimates for each item set forth in this subsection.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5cd813e385c84b9c94db69c3cc083a81"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Discretionary
sequestration reports</header><text>On the dates specified in section 212(a),
OMB and CBO shall issue Discretionary Sequestration Reports, reflecting laws
enacted through those dates, containing all of the information required in the
Discretionary Sequestration Preview Reports.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="IDc4ba1e07c1d34979a28299f176e4a881"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Final
discretionary sequestration reports</header>
<paragraph id="ID5ddb481002d14a8fa7ddb6186f14f04f"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Reporting
requirements</header><text>On the dates specified in section 212(a), OMB and
CBO shall each issue a Final Discretionary Sequestration Report, updated to
reflect laws enacted through those dates.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID1ed98a61986e4ef7bf986036cc1be706"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Discretionary
spending</header><text>The Final Discretionary Sequestration Reports shall set
forth estimates for each of the following:</text>
<subparagraph id="IDb747b1f2eab545e7857788d66fb04826"><enum>(A)</enum><text>For the current
year and each subsequent year through 2021, the applicable discretionary
spending limits.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID1dd3b2cd0c8b46f68a6b445e936171de"><enum>(B)</enum><text>For the current
year, if applicable, and the budget year; the new budget authority and the
breach, if any.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID945930b1786740f1b3399869ba736ead"><enum>(C)</enum><text>The sequestration
percentages necessary to eliminate the breach.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDdbe40f30b5b94ec69cddd662ef2f6c2c"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For the budget
year, for each account to be sequestered, the level of enacted, sequesterable
budget authority and resulting estimated outlays flowing therefrom.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID099853dde4164c0987f352d2472e9166"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Explanation of
differences</header><text>The OMB report shall explain—</text>
<subparagraph id="IDe7146a19c1b24560ae77b4f506f6e1a9"><enum>(A)</enum><text>any differences
between OMB and CBO estimates for the amount of any breach and for any required
discretionary sequestration percentages; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDd22aaf37afef44be99adc567c65f25ac"><enum>(B)</enum><text>differences in
the amount of sequesterable resources for any budget account to be reduced if
such difference is greater than $5,000,000.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID5d16ec6c778f4a628da28b4137d0e284"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Economic and
technical assumptions</header><text>In all reports required by this section,
OMB shall use the same economic and technical assumptions as used in the most
recent budget submitted by the President under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/31/1105">section 1105(a)</external-xref> of title 31,
United States Code.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="ID78ce8dbeb0204228aea5c3f77391728c"><enum>222.</enum><header>Limits</header>
<subsection id="ID22eed73a7560425180f849377486b5c0"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Discretionary
spending limits</header><text>As used in this title, the term
<term>non-security discretionary spending limit</term> shall have the same
meaning as in section 316 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="ID9765a411128140698cdbbf4cbb88a24c"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Enforcement</header>
<paragraph id="ID6e82c8e2004d43df8f5e403d1d74fad4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Sequestration</header><text>On
the date specified in section 212(a), there shall be a sequestration to
eliminate a budget-year breach.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDc30f65d3ad154a90bb36295dbbdf05a6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eliminating a
breach</header><text>Each non-security discretionary account shall be reduced
by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of budget
authority for that year in that account at that time by the uniform percentage
necessary to eliminate a breach of the discretionary spending limit.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID99f485655e2a40f38cc6c904e7d096ee"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Part-year
appropriations</header><text>If, on the date the report is issued under
paragraph (1), there is in effect an Act making continuing appropriations for
part of a fiscal year for any budget account, then the dollar sequestration
calculated for that account under paragraph (2) shall be subtracted
from—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID092180242ffb4d15bfda774c0aa71edb"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the annualized
amount otherwise available by law in that account under that or a subsequent
part-year appropriation; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="ID20e3f2ff13dc4ebbbcc68e109f248844"><enum>(B)</enum><text>when a full-year
appropriation for that account is enacted, from the amount otherwise provided
by the full-year appropriation.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID03796a5eb6ec4225a352062499f9c27f"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Look-back</header><text>If,
after June 30, an appropriation for the fiscal year in progress is enacted that
causes a breach for that year (after taking into account any previous
sequestration), the discretionary spending limit for the next fiscal year shall
be reduced by the amount of that breach.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb546d6a1e5f346f787e04a9e1442a259"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Within-session
sequestration reports and order</header><text>If an appropriation for a fiscal
year in progress is enacted (after Congress adjourns to end the session for
that budget year and before July 1 of that fiscal year) that causes a breach,
10 days later CBO shall issue a report containing the information required in
section 221(c). Fifteen days after enactment, OMB shall issue a report
containing the information required in section 221(c). On the same day as the
OMB report, the President shall issue an order fully implementing without
change all sequestrations required by the OMB calculations set forth in that
report. This order shall be effective on issuance.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="ID71d3fc407f5048d5b68a60f0d225f2f0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Estimates</header>
<paragraph id="IDc4e8d4c87c65465baa2ab55cb5d679fb"><enum>(1)</enum><header>CBO
estimates</header><text>As soon as practicable after Congress completes action
on any legislation providing discretionary appropriations, CBO shall provide an
estimate to OMB of that legislation.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="ID3a153f6a3f9042ba9821abe18fd990b8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>OMB
estimates</header><text>Not later than 7 calendar days (excluding Saturdays,
Sundays, and legal holidays) after the date of enactment of any discretionary
appropriations, OMB shall transmit a report to the Senate and to the House of
Representatives containing—</text>
<subparagraph id="ID3a04a4f1cc914514bee57e1fd1a4a720"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the CBO estimate
of that legislation;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDe5724c3c367846b9847e2b0620ba594f"><enum>(B)</enum><text>an OMB estimate
of that legislation using current economic and technical assumptions;
and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="IDaf962c76ec1046d895a96a10f17bf844"><enum>(C)</enum><text>an explanation of
any difference between the 2 estimates.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="ID28bb6250448645f898eb24d6a52ae427"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Differences</header><text>If
during the preparation of the report under paragraph (2), OMB determines that
there is a difference between the OMB and CBO estimates, OMB shall consult with
the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate
regarding that difference and that consultation, to the extent practicable,
shall include written communication to such committees that affords such
committees the opportunity to comment before the issuance of that
report.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="IDb5658cf968e14591948c6a0b33156fab"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Assumptions and
guidelines</header><text>OMB and CBO shall prepare estimates under this
paragraph in conformance with scorekeeping guidelines determined after
consultation among the House and Senate Committees on the Budget, CBO, and
OMB.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>