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                         THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008

                             ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS

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                             ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS

        An advance appropriation is one made to become available one year or
    more beyond the year for which the appropriations act is passed. Advance
    appropriations in 2008 appropriations acts will become available for
    programs in 2009 or beyond. Since these appropriations are not available
    until after 2008, the amounts will not be included in 2008 budget
    totals, but will be reflected in the totals for the 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 accompanying table lists those
    accounts that have either received discretionary or mandatory advance
    appropriations since 2006 or will request, in 2008, advance
    appropriations for 2009 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing
    statute.
        The enacted Continuing Resolution for 2007 (P.L. 109-289, Division
    B, as amended) does not explicitly address advance appropriations for
    2008. If a full year continuing resolution is enacted, this Budget, as
    illustrated by the accompanying table, assumes that specific legislative
    anomaly language will be included to make 2008 advance appropriations
    available. In general, the Budget also assumes that the 2008 level that
    would be enacted in the legislative anomaly is consistent with the 2008
    advance appropriations that were requested in the 2007 Budget. However,
    for the Department of Education's Career, Technical, and Adult Education
    and Special Education accounts, the 2008 level that would be enacted in
    the legislative anomaly is consistent with the 2007 advance
    appropriation enacted in the 2006 Department of Education Appropriations
    Act (P.L. 109-149). This is in order to ensure comparability with annual
    funding provided under the enacted Continuing Resolution for 2007.

                           Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2008 Budget
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                     Agency/Program                   Pre-Rescission Levels
                                                        2006        2007    2008 Request    2009
                                                                                         Preliminary
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    Discretionary One-year Advances:

      Department of Eduction (20 U.S.C. 1223 and 29
        U.S.C. 703):
        Education for the Disadvantaged.............       7,383       7,383       7,383       7,383
        Special Education...........................       5,413       5,424       5,424       6,215
        Career, Technical, and Adult Education......         791         791         791
        School Improvement Programs.................       1,435       1,435       1,435       1,435

      Department of Energy:
        Elk Hills School Lands Fund.................          36

      Department of Health and Human Services:
        Children and Families Services Programs (42
          U.S.C. 9834)..............................       1,400       1,389       1,389       1,389

      Department of Housing and Urban Development:
        Tenant- and Project-Based Rental Assistance.       4,200       4,200       4,200       4,200

      Department of Labor:
        Training and Employment Services (29 U.S.C.
          2801 et seq.).............................       2,463       2,463       2,463       2,463

      Postal Service:
        Payment to Postal Service fund (39 U.S.C.
          2401).....................................          62          73          80          89

      Discretionary Two-year Advances:
        Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47
          U.S.C. 396)...............................         400         400         400
          2007 and 2008 Cancellation Proposals......                     -53         -50
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          Subtotal, Discretionary Advance
            Appropriations..........................      23,583      23,505      23,515      23,174

    BioShield Advance:

        Department of Homeland Security:............
        Biodefense Countermeasures..................                                           2,175

    Mandatory:

      Department of Health and Human Services:
        Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C.
          1396).....................................      58,517      62,784      65,258      67,293
        Payments to States for Child Support
          Enforcement and Family Support (24 U.S.C.
          Ch. 9)....................................       1,200       1,200       1,000       1,000
        Payments to States for Foster Care and
          Adoption Assistance (P.L. 96-272).........       1,767       1,730       1,810       1,786

      Department of Labor:
        Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners
          (30 U.S.C. 921)...........................          81          74          68          62

      Social Security Administration:
        Supplemental Security Income Program (42
          U.S.C. 1381)..............................      16,810      11,110      16,810      14,800
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          Total, Advance Appropriations.............     101,958     100,403     108,461     110,290
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