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             <h1>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 2019 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 2020 or beyond. Since
                these appropriations are not available until after 2019, the amounts will not be included in the 2019 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 2017 or will request, in 2019,
                advance appropriations for 2020 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing statute.

             The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018 (Division D of Public Law 115–56, as amended by Division A of Public Law 115–90 and
                amended further by Division A of Public Law 115–96), which was in place at the time the budget was prepared, does not explicitly
                address advance appropriations for 2019. As a result, this Budget, as illustrated by the accompanying table, assumes a full-year
                continuing resolution will be enacted and that specific legislative anomaly language will be included to make 2019 advance
                appropriations available.  This is in order to ensure comparability with annual funding provided under the Continuing Appropriations
                Act, 2018, and to depict accurately the 2019 discretionary request levels compared to the discretionary budget authority caps
                enacted in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.  In general, the Budget assumes that
                the 2019 level that would be enacted in the legislative anomaly for discretionary appropriations is equal to the 2018 advance
                appropriations that were enacted in the 2017 appropriations acts.  However, for the Department of Veterans Affairs, the 2019
                level is instead consistent with the 2019 advance appropriation that was requested in the 2018 Budget. In addition, the Budget
                also proposes to cancel portions of the funds assumed to be advance appropriated for Training and Employment Services at the
                Department of Labor, as well as two-year funds advance appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

             For additional information on advance appropriations, please refer to the Budget Process chapter in the Analytical Perspectives volume.

             Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2019 Budget (Budget authority in millions of dollars)

                         Pre-cancellation, Pre-Transfer Enacted Levels1

                         Agency/Program
                         2017
                         2018
                         2019
                         2020 Request

                         Discretionary One-year Advances:

                         Department of Education (20 U.S.C. 1223):

                         Education for the Disadvantaged
                         10,841
                         10,841
                         10,841
                         11,682

                         Special Education
                         9,283
                         9,283
                         9,283
                         10,124

                         Career, Technical, and Adult Education
                         791
                         791
                         791
                         791

                         School Improvement Programs
                         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
                         873

                         Enacted Cancellation (Public Law 115–31)
                         –75
                         .......
                         .......
                         .......

                         Proposed Cancellation of 2019 Enacted Advance2
                         .......
                         .......
                         –899
                         .......

                         Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 111–81):

                         Medical Services
                         51,673
                         44,887
                         49,161
                         63,168

                         Medical Support and Compliance
                         6,524
                         6,654
                         7,239
                         7,106

                         Medical Facilities
                         5,074
                         5,435
                         5,914
                         5,277

                         Medical Community Care
                         .......
                         9,409
                         8,385
                         .......

                         Enacted (Public Law 114–223) Cancellations and Reappropriations3
                          -7,246
                         .......
                         .......
                         .......

                         Enacted Cancellations (Public Law 114–223)
                         –169
                         .......
                         .......
                         .......

                         Discretionary Two-year Advances:

                         Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47 U.S.C. 396)4
                         445
                         445
                         445
                         445

                         Proposed Cancellation of 2019 and 2020 Enacted Advances5
                         .......
                         .......
                         –430
                         –430

                         Subtotal, Discretionary Advance Appropriations
                         84,994
                         95,598
                         98,583
                         103,436

                         Mandatory:

                         Department of Health and Human Services:

                         Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. 1396–1)
                         115,583
                         125,219
                         134,848
                         137,932

                         Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support (24 U.S.C. Ch. 7)
                         1,300
                         1,400
                         1,400
                         1,400

                         Payments for Foster Care and Permanency (Public Law 96–272)
                         2,300
                         2,500
                         2,700
                         2,800

                         Department of Labor:

                         Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners (30 U.S.C. 921)
                         19
                         16
                         15
                         14

                         Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 113–235):6

                         Compensation and Pensions
                         86,083
                         90,119
                         95,658
                         106,949

                         Readjustment Benefits
                         16,341
                         13,709
                         11,861
                         14,000

                         Veterans Insurance and Indemnities
                         92
                         108
                         106
                         111

                         Social Security Administration:

                         Supplemental Security Income Program (42 U.S.C. 1381)
                         14,500
                         15,000
                         19,500
                         19,700

                         Total, Advance Appropriations
                         321,212
                         343,669
                         364,671
                         386,342

             12018 enacted levels exclude the 0.6791 percent across-the-board reduction included in the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018
             (division D of Public Law 115–56).2The 2019 request proposes to cancel $899 million from the one-year funds advance appropriated for Training and Employment
             Services in 2019 assumed to be enacted in the final 2018 appropriations acts.3The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 114–223) cancelled
             $7,246 million from the funds advance appropriated for 2017 for Medical Services and reappropriated an equal amount to the
             new Medical Community Care account.4The 2020 advance appropriation for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of $445 million is assumed to be enacted in the
             final 2018 appropriations acts, consistent with the historical practice of providing the Corporation a two-year advance appropriation.
             The 2019 request does not include any advance appropriations for the Corporation in 2021.5The 2019 request proposes to cancel $430 million from funds advance appropriated for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
             in 2019 by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 115–31) and any advance appropriations in excess of $15 million
             for 2020 assumed to be enacted in the final 2018 appropriations acts.6 The 2020 amounts are net of the $170 million in savings for Compensation and Pension and $65 million in savings for Readjustment
             Benefits that will result from enactment of authorizing legislation that is proposed as part of the 2019 President's Budget.