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                     THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004
 
      ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS, ADVANCE FUNDING, AND FORWARD FUNDING

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      ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS, ADVANCE FUNDING, AND FORWARD FUNDING

    I. An advance appropriation is one made to become available one 
fiscal year or more beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation 
act is passed. Advance appropriations in fiscal year 2004 appropriations 
acts will become available for programs in 2005 or beyond. Since these 
appropriations are not available until after fiscal year 2004, the 
amounts will not be included in fiscal year 2004 budget totals, but will 
be reflected in the budget totals for the fiscal year for which they are 
requested.
    The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)(17)) 
requires inclusion in the budget of ``information on estimates of 
appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which 
the budget is submitted for grants, contracts, and other payments under 
each program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for 
that following fiscal year when the appropriations are authorized to be 
included in an appropriation law for the fiscal year before the fiscal 
year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation.'' In 
fulfillment of this requirement, the table below lists those accounts 
authorized to receive, in fiscal year 2004, advance appropriations for 
fiscal year 2005 and beyond and cites the authorizing statute. Part A 
shows the amounts of advance appropriations included in the 2004 Budget. 
Part B shows the accounts for which 2004 or 2005 advance appropriations 
were provided but for which no new advance appropriations are requested.
    Part C of the table completes OMB's statutory requirements by 
providing a listing of accounts for which advance appropriations are 
authorized but not requested in the 2004 Budget.

  A. Accounts for which advance appropriations are included in the 2004 
                                                                 Budget:
                        Department of Education (20 U.S.C. 1223 and 29 
                                U.S.C. 703):
                             Education for the disadvantaged: $7,383 
                                million for 2005
                             School improvement programs: $1,435 million 
                                for 2005
                             Safe Schools and Citizenship Education: 
                                $330 million for 2005
                             Special education: $5,072 million for 2005
                         Department of Health and Human Services:
                             Grants to States for medicaid (42 U.S.C. 
                                1396): $58,416 million for 2005
                             Payments to States for child support 
                                enforcement and family support programs 
                                (24 U.S.C. Ch. 9): $1,200 million for 
                                2005
                             Payments to States for foster care and 
                                adoption assistance (P.L. 96-272): 
                                $1,822 million for 2005
                             Children and families services program (42 
                                U.S.C. 9834): $1,400 million for 2005
                         Department of Housing and Urban Development:
                             Housing assistance for needy families: 
                                $4,200 million for 2005
                         Department of Labor:
                             Training and employment services (29 U.S.C. 
                                2801 et seq.): $2,463 million for 2005
                             Special benefits for disabled coal miners 
                                (30 U.S.C. 921): $88 million for 2005
                         Postal Service:
                             Payment to the Postal Service fund (39 
                                U.S.C. 2401): $37 million for 2005
                         Social Security Administration:
                             Supplemental security income program (42 
                                U.S.C. 1381): $12,590 million for 2005
B. Accounts for which 2004 or 2005 advance appropriations were provided, 
                                           but for which no new advance 
                                           appropriations are requested:
                        Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
                                (Communications Act of 1934)
 C. Accounts authorized to receive advance appropriations but for which 
                                        none were provided and none are 
                                           requested in the 2004 Budget:
                         Department of Agriculture:
                             Food program administration (42 U.S.C. 
                                1752)
                             Child nutrition programs (42 U.S.C. 1752)
                         Department of Education (20 U.S.C. 1223 and 29 
                                U.S.C. 703): \1\
                             Impact aid
                             Innovation and Improvement
                             Indian education
                             English language acquisition
                             American Printing House for the Blind
                             National Technical Institute for the Deaf
                             Gallaudet University
                             Rehabilitation services and disability 
                                research
                             Student Financial Assistance
                             Federal family education loans
                             Federal direct student loan program
                             Higher education
                             Higher education facilities loans
                             College housing and academic facilities 
                                loans
                             Howard University
                             Historically black college and university 
                                capital financing program
                             Institute of Education Sciences

    \1\ These statutes erroneously refer to ``advance funding.'' Since 
these statutes describe and clearly intend to provide advance 
appropriations, the affected accounts are listed here.

    II. Advance funding is budget authority that is to be charged to the 
appropriation in the succeeding year but which authorizes obligations to 
be incurred in the last quarter of the fiscal year if necessary to meet 
higher than anticipated benefit payments in excess of the specific 
amount appropriated for the year. When such budget authority is used, an 
adjustment is made to increase the budget authority for the fiscal year 
in which it is used and to reduce the budget authority of the succeeding 
fiscal year. Essentially, this is a device for avoiding supplemental 
requests late in the fiscal year for certain programs, should the 
appropriations for the current year prove to be low. The table below 
lists those accounts for which advance funding authority is requested in 
the 2004 Budget.
                         Department of Labor:
                             Special benefits for disabled coal miners
                             Federal unemployment benefits and 
                                allowances

    III. Forward funding is budget authority that is made available for 
obligation beginning in the last quarter of the fiscal year for the 
financing of ongoing grant programs during the next succeeding fiscal 
year. The budget authority for such programs is included in the budget 
totals for the year in which it is appropriated. This device is often 
used for education programs, so that grants can be made on a school year 
basis. The language providing forward funding for education programs 
will specify that amounts appropriated, in most but not all cases, will 
not be available until some time into the year of the appropriation 
(e.g., July 1, 2004) and in most cases will specify that such amounts 
will remain available until the end of the succeeding fiscal year. In 
other cases (e.g., Federal Pell grants), the funds become available on 
October 1st but are not normally obligated until July 1st or later and 
are available for obligation for an additional year. The table below 
lists those accounts for which forward funding exists or is requested in 
whole or in part in the 2004 Budget.


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                         Department of Education:
                             Education for the disadvantaged
                             School improvement programs
                             Safe Schools and Citizenship Education
                             Special education
                             Vocational and adult education
                             Student financial assistance
                             Institute of Education Sciences
                             English language acquisition
                         Department of the Interior:
                             Operation of Indian programs

    In the training and employment area, forward funding for youth 
training grant programs provides appropriations for a program year that 
starts on April 1st of the fiscal year of the appropriation. Financing 
extends through June 30th of the following fiscal year. For most other 
training and employment programs, forward funding provides 
appropriations for a program year that starts on July 1st of the fiscal 
year of the appropriation. Financing extends through June 30th of the 
following fiscal year. Program years are authorized for training 
programs under the Workforce Investment Act and operation of the State 
Employment Service under section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act. The table 
below lists accounts for which forward funding is requested in the 2004 
Budget.

                         Department of Labor:
                            Training and employment services
                            State unemployment insurance and employment 
                                service operations
                            Veterans employment and training
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