[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1536 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1536

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 include in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and 
imposes increased costs on other Federal agencies an offset from funds 
 available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
       the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 23, 2013

   Mr. Flake (for himself, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Heller, and Mr. McCain) 
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the 
               Committee on Environment and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
 include in any proposed rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions and 
imposes increased costs on other Federal agencies an offset from funds 
 available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
       the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.

    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 ``Agency PAYGO Act of 2013''.

SEC. 2. OFFSETS FOR INCREASED COSTS TO FEDERAL AGENCIES FOR REGULATIONS 
              LIMITING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

    (a) In General.--If the Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency proposes a rule that limits greenhouse gas emissions 
and imposes increased costs on one or more other Federal agencies, the 
Administrator shall include in the proposed rule an offset from funds 
available to the Administrator for all projected increased costs that 
the proposed rule would impose on other Federal agencies.
    (b) No Offsets.--If the Administrator proposes a rule that limits 
greenhouse gas emissions and imposes increased costs on one or more 
other Federal agencies but does not provide an offset in accordance 
with paragraph (1), the Administrator may not finalize the rule until 
the promulgation of the final rule is approved by law.
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