[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2366 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2366

   To provide an adjustment to the discretionary spending limits for 
             appropriations for the 2020 decennial census.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 5, 2018

Mr. Booker (for himself and Mr. Schatz) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide an adjustment to the discretionary spending limits for 
             appropriations for the 2020 decennial census.

    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 ``Census Funding Cap Adjustment Act of 
2018''.

SEC. 2. BUDGET CAP EXEMPTION FOR CENSUS FUNDING.

    Section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)) is amended by adding at the 
end the following:
                    ``(E) Decennial census during 2020.--If a bill or 
                joint resolution making appropriations for a fiscal 
                year is enacted that specifies an amount of new budget 
                authority for the decennial census to be conducted 
                during 2020, then the adjustment for that fiscal year 
                shall be the amount by which the new budget authority 
                provided in that Act for that purpose exceeds 
                $70,000,000.''.
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