[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5653 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5653

 To provide that Members of Congress shall not be paid if Congress has 
   not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the 
            regular appropriations bills on a timely basis.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 21, 2023

 Mr. Nickel (for himself, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Correa, Mr. Goldman of New 
   York, Mr. Gottheimer, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Trone, and Mr. Moskowitz) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that Members of Congress shall not be paid if Congress has 
   not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the 
            regular appropriations bills on a timely basis.

    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 ``No Budget, No Pay Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR FAILURE TO 
              AGREE TO BUDGET RESOLUTION OR PASS REGULAR APPROPRIATIONS 
              BILLS ON TIMELY BASIS.

    (a) Failure To Agree to Budget Resolution.--
            (1) Prohibiting compensation.--If by April 15 of any 
        calendar year occurring during a Congress (beginning with the 
        One Hundred Nineteenth Congress), both Houses of Congress have 
        not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget pursuant to 
        section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for the 
        fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that year, no Member 
        of Congress may receive compensation with respect to the period 
        described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Period described.--The period described in this 
        paragraph is the period which begins on April 16 of the 
        calendar year and ends on the day on which both Houses of 
        Congress agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the 
        fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that year.
    (b) Failure To Pass Regular Appropriation Bills.--
            (1) Prohibiting compensation.--If by September 30 of any 
        calendar year occurring during a Congress (beginning with the 
        One Hundred Nineteenth Congress), both Houses of Congress have 
        not passed each of the regular appropriation bills for the 
        fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that year, no Member 
        of Congress may receive compensation with respect to the period 
        described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Period described.--The period described in this 
        paragraph is the period which begins on October 1 of the 
        calendar year and ends on the first day by which both Houses of 
        Congress have passed each of the regular appropriation bills 
        for the fiscal year which begins on October 1 of that year.
            (3) Regular appropriation bill defined.--The term ``regular 
        appropriation bill'' means any annual appropriation bill which, 
        with respect to the Congress involved, is under the 
        jurisdiction of a single subcommittee of the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives (pursuant to the 
        Rules of the House of Representatives for that Congress) and a 
        single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
        Senate (pursuant to the Standing Rules of the Senate).
    (c) Treatment of Delegates as Members; Exclusion of Vice 
President.--In this section, the term ``Member of Congress'' includes a 
Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress but does not include 
the Vice President.
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