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         ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS                                                                                                   
            
         
      
      
   
   
      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 2017 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 2018 or beyond. Since
               these appropriations are not available until after 2017, the amounts will not be included in the 2017 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 2015 or will request, in 2017,
               advance appropriations for 2018 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing statute. 
         For additional information on advance appropriations, please refer to the Budget Process chapter in the Analytical Perspectives
               volume.
         Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2017 Budget (Budget authority in millions of dollars)
         
            
               
                  
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                      
                      
                     Pre-cancellation Enacted Levels
                      
                  
                  
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                     Agency/Program
                     2015
                     2016
                     2017
                     2018 Request
                  
                  
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                     Discretionary One-year Advances:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Department of Education (20 U.S.C. 1223):
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Education for the Disadvantaged
                     10,841
                     10,841
                     10,841
                     10,841
                  
                  
                     Special Education
                     9,283
                     9,283
                     9,283
                     9,283
                  
                  
                     Career, Technical, and Adult Education
                     791
                     791
                     791
                     791
                  
                  
                     School Improvement Programs
                     1,681
                     1,681
                     1,681
                     1,681
                  
                  
                     Department of Housing and Urban Development (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.):
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Tenant-Based Rental Assistance
                     4,000
                     4,000
                     4,000
                     4,000
                  
                  
                     Project-Based Rental Assistance
                     400
                     400
                     400
                     400
                  
                  
                     Department of Labor:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Training and Employment Services (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.)
                     1,772
                     1,772
                     1,772
                     1,772
                  
                  
                     Department of Veterans Affairs (P.L. 111â81):
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Medical Services
                     45,016
                     47,603
                     51,673
                     44,887
                  
                  
                     Medical Support and Compliance
                     5,880
                     6,144
                     6,524
                     6,654
                  
                  
                     Medical Facilities
                     4,739
                     4,915
                     5,074
                     5,435
                  
                  
                     Medical Community Care1
                     .......
                     .......
                     (7,246)
                     9,409
                  
                  
                     Enacted (P.L. 113â235 and P.L. 114â113) Cancellations and Reappropriations2
                      -1,750
                      -1,750
                     .......
                     .......
                  
                  
                     2015 Enacted Cancellations (P.L. 113â235) 
                      -37
                     .......
                     .......
                     .......
                  
                  
                     General Services Administration (40 U.S.C. 592):
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Federal Buildings Fund3
                     .......
                     .......
                     .......
                     10,164
                  
                  
                     Postal Service:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Payment to Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2401)
                     71
                     41
                     .......
                     .......
                  
                  
                     Discretionary Two-year Advances:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47 U.S.C. 396)4
                     445
                     445
                     445
                     445
                  
                  
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                     Subtotal, Discretionary Advance Appropriations
                     83,132
                     86,166
                     92,484
                     105,762
                  
                  
                     Mandatory:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Department of Agriculture:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (7 U.S.C. 2027)
                     ........
                     ........
                     ........
                     19,647
                  
                  
                     Department of Health and Human Services:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. 1396â1)
                     103,472
                     113,272
                     115,582
                     125,219
                  
                  
                     Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support (24 U.S.C. Ch. 9)
                     1,250
                     1,160
                     1,300
                     1,400
                  
                  
                     Payments for Foster Care and Permanency (P.L. 96â272)
                     2,200
                     2,300
                     2,300
                     2,500
                  
                  
                     Department of Labor:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners (30 U.S.C. 921)
                     24
                     21
                     19
                     16
                  
                  
                     Department of Veterans Affairs (P.L. 113â235):5
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Compensation and Pensions
                     .......
                     .......
                     86,083
                     89,941
                  
                  
                     Readjustment Benefits
                     .......
                     .......
                     16,341
                     13,683
                  
                  
                     Veterans Insurance and Indemnities
                     .......
                     .......
                     92
                     108
                  
                  
                     Social Security Administration:
                     
                     
                     
                     
                  
                  
                     Supplemental Security Income Program (42 U.S.C. 1381)
                     19,700
                     19,200
                     14,500
                     15,000
                  
                  
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                     
                        
                     
                  
                  
                     Total, Advance Appropriations
                     209,778
                     222,119
                     328,701
                     373,276
                  
                  
                     
                        
                     
                  
               
            
         1Consistent with section 4003 of the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (P.L. 114â41),
         the Budget requests $7.2 billion be reallocated from the 2017 advance appropriation enacted in the Consolidated Appropriations
         Act, 2016 (P.L. 114â113) to the new Medical Community Care account and includes the new account in its advance appropriations
         request for veterans medical care for 2018.2The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (P.L. 113â235) cancelled $1,750 million from the one-year
         funds advance appropriated for 2015 in P.L. 113â76 and reappropriated an equal amount with an extended period of availability.
         The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (P.L. 114â113) cancelled $1,750 million from the one-year funds advance appropriated
         for 2016 in P.L. 113â235 and reappropriated an equal amount with an extended period of availability.3The requested advance appropriation for the General Services Administration will be fully offset in 2018 by collections in
         the Federal Buildings Fund.4The 2017 request includes a 2019 advance appropriation for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of $445 million, consistent
         with the historical practice of providing the Corporation a two-year advance appropriation.5The 2018 amounts are net of the $178 million in savings for Compensation and Pension and $26 million in savings for Readjustment
         Benefits that will result from enactment of authorizing legislation that is proposed as part of the 2017 President's Budget.