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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 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 115â56, as amended by Division A of Public Law 115â90 and
            amended further by Division A of Public Law 115â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 115â31)
                     â75
                     .......
                     .......
                     .......
                  
                  
                     Proposed Cancellation of 2019 Enacted Advance2
                     .......
                     .......
                     â899
                     .......
                  
                  
                     Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 111â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 114â223) Cancellations and Reappropriations3
                      -7,246
                     .......
                     .......
                     .......
                  
                  
                     Enacted Cancellations (Public Law 114â223)
                     â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
                     .......
                     .......
                     â430
                     â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. 1396â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 96â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 113â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 115â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 114â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 115â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.