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<h1>ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS</h1>
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 2020 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 2021 or beyond. Since
these appropriations are not available until after 2020, the amounts will not be included in the 2020 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 2018 or will request, in 2020,
advance appropriations for 2021 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing statute.
The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019 (Division C of Public Law 115–245, as amended), which was in place for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at the time the Budget was prepared, does not explicitly address advance appropriations
for 2020. As a result, this Budget, as illustrated by the accompanying table, assumes a full-year continuing resolution for
HUD will be enacted and that specific legislative anomaly language will be included to make 2020 advance appropriations available.
This is in order to ensure comparability with annual funding provided under the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019, and to
depict accurately the 2020 discretionary request levels compared to the discretionary budget authority caps enacted in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended. The Budget assumes that the 2020 level that would
be enacted in the legislative anomaly for discretionary appropriations for HUD is equal to the 2019 advance appropriations
that were enacted for HUD in the 2018 appropriations acts.
For additional information on advance appropriations, please refer to the Budget Process chapter in the Analytical Perspectives
volume.
Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2020 Budget (Budget authority in millions of dollars)
Pre-cancellation, Pre-Transfer Enacted Levels1
Agency/Program
2018
2019
2020
2021 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
1,686
Enacted Cancellation (Public Laws 115–141 and 115–245)
–13
–53
.......
.......
Proposed Cancellation of 2020 Enacted Advance
.......
.......
–86
.......
Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 111–81):
Medical Services
44.887
49,161
51,411
56,158
Medical Support and Compliance
6,654
7,239
7,239
7,914
Enacted Cancellations (Public Law 115–244)
.......
–211
.......
.......
Medical Facilities
5,435
5,914
6,142
6,433
Medical Community Care
9,409
8,385
10,758
17,131
Discretionary Two-year Advances:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47 U.S.C. 396)1
445
445
445
445
Proposed Cancellation of 2020 and 2021 Enacted Advances
.......
.......
–415
–415
Subtotal, Discretionary Advance Appropriations
95,585
99,648
104,262
116,349
Mandatory:
Department of Health and Human Services:
Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. 1396–1)
125,219
134,848
137,932
139,903
Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support (24 U.S.C. Ch. 7)
1,400
1,400
1,400
1,400
Payments for Foster Care and Permanency (Public Law 96–272)
2,500
2,700
2,800
3,000
Department of Labor:
Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners (30 U.S.C. 921)
16
15
14
14
Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 113–235):2
Compensation and Pensions
90,119
95,768
109,017
116,187
Readjustment Benefits
13,709
11,832
14,065
12,550
Veterans Insurance and Indemnities
108
109
111
129
Social Security Administration:
Supplemental Security Income Program (42 U.S.C. 1381)
15,000
19,500
19,700
19,900
Total, Advance Appropriations
343,656
365,820
389,301
409,432
1 Historically, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is provided a two-year advance appropriation. The 2020 request does
not include any advance appropriations for the Corporation in 2022.2The 2021 amounts are net of the $614 million in savings for Compensation and Pension and $29 million in savings for Readjustment
Benefits that will result from enactment of authorizing legislation that is proposed as part of the 2020 President's Budget.