[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
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[H.R. 6953 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6953

      To establish comprehensive, annual congressional budgeting.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2024

Mr. Moore of Utah (for himself and Ms. Perez) 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 establish comprehensive, annual congressional budgeting.

    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 ``Comprehensive Congressional Budget 
Act of 2024''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Federal deficits and debt are projected to keep growing 
        at unsustainable rates.
            (2) Congress does not consider a comprehensive budget with 
        all spending and revenue at the level of spending accounts and 
        revenue line items.
            (3) The number of Federal spending accounts has grown from 
        1,734 in March 2009 to 2,004 in May 2022.
            (4) The annual Congressional budget cycle separates 
        appropriations legislation from the management of direct 
        spending and revenue policies.
            (5) Annual appropriations advance each year, but they have 
        declined from 50 percent of Federal spending in 1974 to less 
        than 33 percent. The decline is expected to continue.
            (6) Congress has not enacted all appropriations bills prior 
        to the start of the fiscal year since 1996 for fiscal year 
        1997.
            (7) Members have little opportunity to offer substantive 
        amendments on budget and appropriations legislation during 
        floor consideration.
            (8) Programs outside of the annual appropriations bills 
        account for almost all projected spending growth compared to 
        the economy.
            (9) Most committees of Congress and the Members who serve 
        on them have little direct involvement with shaping the fiscal 
        priorities of the Federal Government on an ongoing basis.
            (10) Authorizing committees haven't enacted updated 
        authorizations for $461,000,000,000 of appropriations for 
        fiscal year 2022.
            (11) Major trust funds face depletion within 15 years 
        including the Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
        Trust Fund, the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the 
        Highway Trust Fund for highway and transit programs.
            (12) Direct spending and revenue policies lack a regular, 
        comprehensive review around which Members of Congress can 
        anticipate developing proposals and building coalitions.
            (13) Reconciliation is an irregular, complicated tool to 
        manage direct spending and revenue policies, and it tends to 
        increase deficits and debt.
            (14) By contrast, the President's budget proposal provides 
        a comprehensive account of Federal spending and revenue along 
        with the legislative proposals of the President.
            (15) An incomplete and divided congressional budget process 
        may weaken Congress, its power of the purse, its oversight 
        powers, and its other authorities against an executive branch 
        with a unified budget.
            (16) Fourteen States complete their annual or biennial 
        budget cycle with a single bill: Colorado, Connecticut, 
        Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New 
        Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, and 
        Wisconsin. Another 16 States enact 5 or fewer budget and 
        appropriations bills per cycle: Illinois, New Hampshire, New 
        Mexico, South Carolina, California, Kansas, Washington, Texas, 
        Alaska, Delaware, Ohio, Vermont, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Nevada, 
        and New York.
            (17) A comprehensive budget with all Federal spending and 
        revenue with contributions from many committees can--
                    (A) enable more effective budget management;
                    (B) involve more Members of Congress;
                    (C) help set priorities and control deficits and 
                debt;
                    (D) improve program coordination;
                    (E) add value for the people of the United States; 
                and
                    (F) make Congress become a more effective 
                legislative body.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3 of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through (11) as 
        paragraphs (7) through (12), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following:
            ``(6) The term `annual budget Act' means an Act itemizing 
        all Federal budget authority and revenue through the 
        contributions of the appropriations committees and each other 
        committee receiving allocations under section 302(a).''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 314(g)(1)(A) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974 (2 U.S.C. 645(g)(1)(A)) is amended by striking ``an 
        appropriation measure'' and inserting ``an annual budget Act''.
            (2) Section 401(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        (2 U.S.C. 651) is amended, in the matter following paragraph 
        (3) by striking ``appropriation Acts'' and inserting ``an 
        annual budget Act''.
            (3) Section 3(15)(A)(ii) of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 
        1995 (2 U.S.C. 1602(15)) is amended by striking ``section 3(8) 
        of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
        1974'' and inserting ``section 3 of the Congressional Budget 
        and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622)''.
            (4) Section 2009a(3) of title 39, United States Code, is 
        amended by striking ``deficit under section 3(6) of the 
        Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974'' and 
        inserting ``deficit, as defined under section 3 of the 
        Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
        U.S.C. 622)''.

SEC. 4. TIMETABLE.

    Section 300 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631) 
is amended to read as follows:

                              ``timetable

    ``Sec. 300. The timetable with respect to the congressional budget 
process for any fiscal year is as follows:


``On or before:                           Action to be completed:
First Monday in February................  President submits to Congress the budget request of the President.
February 15.............................  Congressional Budget Office submits report to Budget Committees.
Not later than 6 weeks after President    Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.
 submits budget.
April 1.................................  Senate Budget Committee reports concurrent resolution on the budget.
April 15................................  Congress completes action on concurrent resolution on the budget.
May 15..................................  Committees submit direct spending and revenue line items and any
                                           recommendations to Committees on Appropriations.
June 10.................................  House appropriations Committee reports annual budget Act.
June 30.................................  House completes action on annual budget Act.
October 1...............................  Fiscal year begins.''.
 

SEC. 5. ANNUAL ADOPTION OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET.

    (a) In General.--Section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 632) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the matter following paragraph 
        (7)--
                    (A) by striking ``resolution shall not'' and 
                inserting ``resolution shall'';
                    (B) by striking ``or the related'' and inserting 
                ``and the related'';
                    (C) by striking ``subsection or'' and inserting 
                ``subsection and''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following: ``If a 
                concurrent resolution on the budget is not adopted by 
                April 15, the Chair of the Committee on the Budget of 
                each House of Congress shall report to their House 
                baseline levels for all amounts required under this 
                subsection within 3 legislative days, and such baseline 
                levels shall apply in such House as though they were 
                included in a concurrent resolution on the budget.'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``on any 
        reconciliation bill'' and all that follows and inserting ``on 
        the annual budget Act;'';
            (3) in subsection (d), in the first sentence, by striking 
        ``committee.'' and inserting ``committee, including baseline 
        spending projections by budget account of policies within the 
        jurisdiction of such committee and a description of any changes 
        such committee expects to recommend for the annual budget Act. 
        The Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on 
        Ways and Means of the House of Representatives shall each 
        submit to the Committee on the Budget of its House a revenue 
        statement, a tax expenditure budget, and a description of any 
        changes such committee expects to recommend for the annual 
        budget Act.''; and
            (4) in subsection (e)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (F), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``: and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(G) a line-item budget that compiles baseline 
                spending and revenue projections for the budget 
                year.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 302(a)(5)(A) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)(5)(A)) is amended by 
striking ``the discretionary spending levels'' and all that follows and 
inserting ``the baseline levels reported under section 301(a) for the 
budget year.''.

SEC. 6. COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 633) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (d) through (g) as 
        subsections (e) through (h), respectively;
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following:
    ``(d) Committees Submit Line Items and Proposals.--
            ``(1) In general.--Each committee to which an allocation is 
        made under this section other than the Committee on 
        Appropriations of a House shall--
                    ``(A) compile--
                            ``(i) direct spending and revenue 
                        projections for budget accounts within its 
                        jurisdiction, which shall include the effect of 
                        any recommended changes described in clause 
                        (ii); and
                            ``(ii) legislation to effect any 
                        recommended changes to policies within its 
                        jurisdiction; and
                    ``(B) submit to the Committee on Appropriations of 
                its House, for inclusion in the annual budget Act, 
                direct spending and revenue line items and legislation 
                to effect such recommended changes.
            ``(2) Legislative changes.--Recommended changes described 
        in paragraph (1)(A)(ii) should produce a change in outlays or 
        revenues, including changes in outlays and revenues brought 
        about by changes in the terms and conditions under which 
        outlays are made or revenue are required to be collected.
            ``(3) Inconsistent submissions.--If any submission under 
        this subsection is inconsistent with the requirements of the 
        concurrent resolution on the budget, as determined by the 
        applicable Committee on the Budget, the Committee on 
        Appropriations shall return the submission to the originating 
        committee.''; and
            (3) in subsection (h), as so redesignated--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)(A), in the matter preceding 
                clause (i), by striking ``(f)(1)'' and inserting 
                ``(g)(1)''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ``(f)(1)'' and 
                inserting ``(g)(1)''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 904 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ``302(f)'' and 
        inserting ``302(g)''; and
            (2) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ``302(f)'' and 
        inserting ``302(g)''.

SEC. 7. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET MUST BE ADOPTED BEFORE 
              BUDGET-RELATED LEGISLATION IS CONSIDERED.

    Section 303 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 634) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``any general 
        appropriation bill or amendment thereto'' and inserting ``the 
        annual budget Act or amendment thereto''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``any appropriation 
        bill or joint resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or 
        conference report thereon'' and inserting ``the annual budget 
        Act, any amendment or motion thereto, or any conference report 
        thereon''.

SEC. 8. HOUSE COMMITTEE ACTION ON THE ANNUAL BUDGET ACT TO BE COMPLETED 
              BY JUNE 10.

    (a) In General.--Section 307 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 638) is amended to read as follows:

 ``house committee action on the annual budget act to be completed by 
                                june 10

    ``Sec. 307.  (a) On or before June 10 of each year, the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall report the 
annual budget Act--
            ``(1) providing new budget authority under the jurisdiction 
        of all of its subcommittees for the fiscal year which begins on 
        October 1 of that year; and
            ``(2) which shall include, without substantive revision, 
        all line items and any recommended changes submitted by each 
        committee of the House with jurisdiction over direct spending 
        or revenue policies.
    ``(b) If 1 or more committees of a House of Congress fails to 
submit line items as described in subsection (a)(2), the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House shall include baseline line items provided 
by the Committee on the Budget with respect to matters within the 
jurisdiction of each committee that failed to submit line items''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public 
Law 93-344; 88 Stat. 297) is amended by striking the item relating to 
section 307 and inserting the following:

``Sec. 307. House committee action on the annual budget Act to be 
                            completed by June 10.''.

SEC. 9. HOUSE APPROVAL OF ANNUAL BUDGET ACT.

    (a) In General.--Section 309 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 640) is amended to read as follows:

                 ``house approval of annual budget act

    ``Sec. 309.  (a) It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives to consider any resolution providing for an adjournment 
period of more than three calendar days during the month of July until 
the House of Representatives has approved the annual budget Act--
            ``(1) providing new budget authority under the jurisdiction 
        of all the subcommittees of the Committee on Appropriations for 
        the fiscal year beginning on October 1 of such year; and
            ``(2) which shall include--
                    ``(A) all line-item levels;
                    ``(B) any recommended changes submitted by each 
                committee of the House of Representatives with 
                jurisdiction over direct spending or revenue policies; 
                and
                    ``(C) any further changes agreed to during 
                consideration on the floor of the House of 
                Representatives.
    ``(b) For purposes of this section, the chair of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives shall periodically 
advise the Speaker as to changes in jurisdiction among its various 
subcommittees.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public 
Law 93-344; 88 Stat. 297) is amended by striking the item relating to 
section 309 and inserting the following:

``Sec. 309. House approval of annual budget Act.''.

SEC. 10. REPEAL OF RECONCILIATION.

    (a) In General.--Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) is amended by striking sections 310 and 313 (2 
U.S.C. 641, 644).
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 301(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
        (2 U.S.C. 632(b)), as amended by section 5, is amended--
                    (A) by striking paragraph (2); and
                    (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) through (9) as 
                paragraphs (2) through (8), respectively.
            (2) Section 305(c)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974 (2 U.S.C. 636(c)(1)) is amended by striking ``(or a 
        reconciliation bill or resolution)''.
            (3) Section 314(e)(4) of the Congressional Budget Act of 
        1974 (2 U.S.C. 645(e)(4)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(4) Form of the point of order.--Notwithstanding any 
        other law or rule of the Senate, it shall be in order for a 
        Senator to raise a single point of order against several 
        provisions of a bill, resolution, amendment, motion, amendment 
        between the Houses, or conference report making emergency 
        designations. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point of 
        order as to some or all of the provisions against which the 
        Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Officer so 
        sustains the point of order as to some of the provisions 
        (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or conference 
        report) against which the Senator raised the point of order, 
        then only those provisions (including provisions of an 
        amendment, motion, or conference report) against which the 
        Presiding Officer sustains the point of order shall be stricken 
        pursuant to this section. Before the Presiding Officer rules on 
        such a point of order, any Senator may move to waive such a 
        point of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions 
        against which the point of order was raised. Such a motion to 
        waive is amendable in accordance with the rules and precedents 
        of the Senate. After the Presiding Officer rules on such a 
        point of order, any Senator may appeal the ruling of the 
        Presiding Officer on such a point of order as it applies to 
        some or all of the provisions on which the Presiding Officer 
        ruled.'';
            (4) Section 904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
        U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
                    (A) in subsection (c)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
                        ``310(d)(2), 313,''; and
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                        ``310(g)''; and
                    (B) in subsection (d)--
                            (i) in paragraph (1), by striking 
                        ``reconciliation bill,'';
                            (ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
                        ``310(d)(2), 313,''; and
                            (iii) in paragraph (3), by striking 
                        ``310(g)''.
            (5) The table of contents in section 1(b) of the 
        Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 
        amended by striking the items relating to sections 310 and 313.
            (6) The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
        of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) is amended--
                    (A) in section 258(b)(2) (2 U.S.C. 907a(b)(2)), by 
                striking ``, 310(d),'' and inserting ``and''; and
                    (B) in section 258C (2 U.S.C. 907d)--
                            (i) in subsection (a)(2), in the third 
                        sentence, by striking ``of the type referred to 
                        in section 310(a) of the Congressional Budget 
                        Act of 1974''; and
                            (ii) in subsection (b)--
                                    (I) by striking paragraph (1) and 
                                inserting the following:
            ``(1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), in 
        the Senate regular procedures for consideration of legislation 
        shall apply to the consideration of resolutions, and 
        reconciliation bills and reconciliation resolutions reported 
        under subsection (a) and conference reports thereon.''; and
                                    (II) by striking paragraph (3) and 
                                inserting the following:
            ``(3) Limitation on amendments.--No amendment to a 
        reconciliation bill or reconciliation resolution reported under 
        subsection (a) shall increase net deficits or reduce net 
        surpluses in the 5-year period or the 10-year period following 
        the current year or any of the 10-year periods following the 
        10-year period immediately following the current year.''.
            (7) Section 4(g)(3)(D) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act 
        of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(g)(3)(D)) is amended by striking 
        ``section 313 (e)'' and inserting ``section 314(e)(4)''.

SEC. 11. DETERMINATIONS AND POINTS OF ORDER.

    Section 312(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
643(f)) is amended by inserting ``commit or'' before ``recommit''.

SEC. 12. ANALYSIS BY CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE.

    Section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) 
is amended, in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
``(except the Committee on Appropriations of each House)'' and 
inserting ``and for each submission by a committee of a House of 
Congress to the Committee on Appropriations of its House of recommended 
direct spending or revenue changes to be included under section 302(d) 
in an annual budget Act''.

SEC. 13. OFF-BUDGET AGENCIES, PROGRAMS, AND ACTIVITIES.

    Section 405(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
655(a)) is amended by striking ``immediately prior to the date of 
enactment of this section, not including activities of the Federal Old-
Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Funds,''.

SEC. 14. IDENTIFICATION OF LIMITED TAX BENEFITS.

    Section 1027 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 691f) is amended by striking ``revenue or 
reconciliation bill or joint resolution'' each place it appears and 
inserting ``revenue bill or annual budget Act''.
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