[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H5361-H5363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        PROVIDING FOR BUDGET ALLOCATIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

  Pursuant to section 5 of House Resolution 1153, H. Res. 1151 is 
adopted.
  The text of the resolution is as follows:

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                              H. Res. 1151

       Resolved,

     SECTION 1. BUDGET MATTERS.

       (a) Fiscal Year 2023.--For the purpose of enforcing the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) for 
     fiscal year 2023, the allocations, aggregates, and other 
     budgetary levels provided for in subsection (b) shall apply 
     in the House of Representatives in the same manner as for a 
     concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2023 with 
     appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2023 and for 
     fiscal years 2024 through 2032.
       (b) Committee Allocations, Aggregates, and Levels.--The 
     chair of the Committee on the Budget shall submit a statement 
     for publication in the Congressional Record as soon as 
     practicable containing--
       (1) committee allocations for the Committee on 
     Appropriations for fiscal year 2023 for new discretionary 
     budget authority of $1,602,901,000,000 and the outlays 
     flowing therefrom, and for current law mandatory budget 
     authority and outlays, for the purpose of enforcing section 
     302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633);
       (2) for all committees other than the Committee on 
     Appropriations, committee allocations for fiscal year 2023 
     and for the period of fiscal years 2023 through 2032 
     consistent with the most recent baseline of the Congressional 
     Budget Office, as adjusted, to the extent practicable, for 
     the budgetary effects of any provision of law enacted during 
     the period beginning on the date such baseline is issued and 
     ending on the date of submission of such statement, for the 
     purpose of enforcing section 302 of the Congressional Budget 
     Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633);
       (3) aggregate spending levels for fiscal year 2023 in 
     accordance with the allocations established under paragraphs 
     (1) and (2), for the purpose of enforcing section 311 of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 642); and
       (4) aggregate revenue levels for fiscal year 2023 and for 
     the period of fiscal years 2023 through 2032 consistent with 
     the most recent baseline of the Congressional Budget Office, 
     as adjusted, to the extent practicable, for the budgetary 
     effects of any provision of law enacted during the period 
     beginning on the date such baseline is issued and ending on 
     the date of submission of such statement, for the purpose of 
     enforcing section 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
     (2 U.S.C. 642).
       (c) Adjustments.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget 
     may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary 
     levels included in the statement referred to in subsection 
     (b)--
       (1) to reflect changes resulting from the Congressional 
     Budget Office's updates to its baseline for fiscal years 2023 
     through 2032;
       (2) upon the enactment of a bill or joint resolution 
     providing for a change in concepts or definitions; or
       (3) for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report by the amounts provided in such measure if 
     such measure would not increase the deficit for either of the 
     following time periods: fiscal year 2023 to fiscal year 2027 
     or fiscal year 2023 to fiscal year 2032.
       (d) Applicability of Section 251 Adjustments to 
     Discretionary Spending Limits.--Except as expressly provided 
     otherwise, the adjustments provided by section 251(b) of the 
     Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 
     U.S.C. 901(b)) shall not apply to allocations, aggregates, 
     and other budgetary levels established pursuant to this 
     resolution.
       (e) Emergency Requirements.--(1) If a bill, joint 
     resolution, amendment, or conference report contains a 
     provision providing new budget authority and outlays or 
     reducing revenue, and a designation of such provision as an 
     emergency requirement, the chair of the Committee on the 
     Budget shall not count the budgetary effects of such 
     provision for any purpose in the House.
       (2)(A) A proposal to strike a designation under paragraph 
     (1) shall be excluded from an evaluation of budgetary effects 
     for any purpose in the House.
       (B) An amendment offered under subparagraph (A) that also 
     proposes to reduce each amount appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by the pending measure that is not required to be 
     appropriated or otherwise made available shall be in order at 
     any point in the reading of the pending measure.
       (f) Adjustment for Disaster Relief.--The chair of the 
     Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, 
     aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in the 
     statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
       (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2023 specifies an amount that Congress designates 
     as being for disaster relief, the adjustment for fiscal year 
     2023 shall be the total of such appropriations for fiscal 
     year 2023 designated as being for disaster relief, but not to 
     exceed the total of--
       (A) the average over the previous 10 fiscal years 
     (excluding the highest and lowest fiscal years) of the sum of 
     the funding provided for disaster relief (as that term is 
     defined on the date immediately before March 23, 2018);
       (B) 5 percent of the total appropriations provided in the 
     previous 10 fiscal years, net of any rescissions of budget 
     authority enacted in the same period, with respect to amounts 
     provided for major disasters declared pursuant to the Robert 
     T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) and designated by the Congress as an 
     emergency; and
       (C) the cumulative net total of the unused carryover for 
     fiscal year 2018 and all subsequent fiscal years, where the 
     unused carryover for each fiscal year is calculated as the 
     sum of the amounts in subparagraphs (A) and (B) less the 
     enacted appropriations for that fiscal year that have been 
     designated as being for disaster relief.
       (2) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
     ``disaster relief'' means activities carried out pursuant to 
     a determination under section 102(2) of the Robert T. 
     Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
     U.S.C. 5122(2)).
       (g) Adjustment for Wildfire Suppression.--The chair of the 
     Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, 
     aggregates, and other budgetary levels included in the 
     statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
       (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2023 specifies an amount for wildfire suppression 
     operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at the 
     Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior, 
     then the adjustment shall be the additional new budget 
     authority specified in such measure as being for wildfire 
     suppression operations for fiscal year 2023, but shall not 
     exceed $2,550,000,000.
       (2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection, the terms 
     ``additional new budget authority'' and ``wildfire 
     suppression operations'' have the meanings specified in 
     subclauses (I) and (II), respectively, of section 
     251(b)(2)(F)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) and (II)).
       (h) Adjustment for Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control.--
     The chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the 
     allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary levels included 
     in the statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
       (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2023 specifies an amount for the health care 
     fraud abuse control program at the Department of Health and 
     Human Services (75-8393-0-7-571), then the adjustment shall 
     be the additional new budget authority specified in such 
     measure for such program for fiscal year 2023, but shall not 
     exceed $576,000,000.
       (2) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
     ``additional new budget authority'' means the amount provided 
     for fiscal year 2023, in excess of $323,000,000, in a bill, 
     joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making 
     discretionary appropriations and specified to pay for the 
     costs of the health care fraud and abuse control program.
       (i) Adjustment for Continuing Disability Reviews and 
     Redeterminations.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget 
     may adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary 
     levels included in the statement referred to in subsection 
     (b) as follows:
       (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2023 specifies an amount for continuing 
     disability reviews under titles II and XVI of the Social 
     Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq., 1381 et seq.), for the 
     cost associated with conducting redeterminations of 
     eligibility under title XVI of the Social Security Act, for 
     the cost of co-operative disability investigation units, and 
     for the cost associated with the prosecution of fraud in the 
     programs and operations of the Social Security Administration 
     by Special Assistant United States Attorneys, then the 
     adjustment shall be the additional new budget authority 
     specified in such measure for such expenses for fiscal year 
     2023, but shall not exceed $1,511,000,000.
       (2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection--
       (A) the term ``continuing disability reviews'' means 
     continuing disability reviews under sections 221(i) and 
     1614(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 421(i), 
     1382c(a)(4)), including work-related continuing disability 
     reviews to determine whether earnings derived from services 
     demonstrate an individual's ability to engage in substantial 
     gainful activity;
       (B) the term ``redetermination'' means redetermination of 
     eligibility under sections 1611(c)(1) and 1614(a)(3)(H) of 
     the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(1), 
     1382c(a)(3)(H)); and
       (C) the term ``additional new budget authority'' means the 
     amount provided for fiscal year 2023, in excess of 
     $288,000,000, in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report and specified to pay for the costs of 
     continuing disability reviews, redeterminations, co-operative 
     disability investigation units, and fraud prosecutions under 
     the heading ``Limitation on Administrative Expenses'' for the 
     Social Security Administration.
       (j) Adjustment for Reemployment Services and Eligibility 
     Assessments.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget may 
     adjust the allocations, aggregates, and other budgetary 
     levels included in the statement referred to in subsection 
     (b) as follows:
       (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
     conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
     fiscal year 2023 specifies an amount for grants to States 
     under section 306 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 506) 
     for claimants of regular compensation, as defined in such 
     section, including those who are profiled as most likely to 
     exhaust their benefits, then the adjustment shall be the 
     additional new budget authority

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     specified in such measure for such grants for fiscal year 
     2023, but shall not exceed $258,000,000.
       (2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection, the term 
     ``additional new budget authority'' means the amount provided 
     for fiscal year 2023, in excess of $117,000,000, in a bill, 
     joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making 
     discretionary appropriations and specified to pay for grants 
     to States under section 306 of the Social Security Act (42 
     U.S.C. 506) for claimants of regular compensation, as defined 
     in such section, including those who are profiled as most 
     likely to exhaust their benefits.
       (k) Budgetary Treatment of Administrative Expenses.--
       (1) In general.--Notwithstanding section 302(a)(1) of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)(1)), 
     section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
     632 note), and section 2009a of title 39, United States Code, 
     the statement filed pursuant to subsection (b) shall include 
     in an allocation under section 302(a) of the Congressional 
     Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the Committee on 
     Appropriations of amounts for the discretionary 
     administrative expenses of the Social Security Administration 
     and the United States Postal Service.
       (2) Special rule.--For purposes of enforcing section 302(f) 
     of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(f)), 
     estimates of the level of total new budget authority and 
     total outlays provided by a measure shall include any 
     discretionary amounts described in paragraph (1).

     SEC. 2. APPLICATION.

       (a) Budgetary Adjustments.--The chair of the Committee on 
     the Budget may make appropriate budgetary adjustments of new 
     budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom pursuant 
     to the adjustment authorities provided by section 1.
       (b) Application and Effect of Changes in Allocations, 
     Aggregates, and Other Budgetary Levels.--
       (1) Application.--Any adjustments of allocations, 
     aggregates, and other budgetary levels made pursuant to this 
     resolution shall--
       (A) apply while that measure is under consideration;
       (B) take effect upon the enactment of that measure; and
       (C) be published in the Congressional Record as soon as 
     practicable.
       (2) Effect of changed allocations, aggregates, and other 
     budgetary levels.--Revised adjustments of allocations, 
     aggregates, and other budgetary levels resulting from these 
     adjustments shall be considered for the purposes of the 
     Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621 et seq.) as 
     the adjustments of allocations, aggregates, and other 
     budgetary levels contained in this resolution.
       (3) Budget committee determinations.--For purposes of this 
     resolution, adjustments of allocations, aggregates, and other 
     budgetary levels shall be determined on the basis of 
     estimates made by the chair of the Committee on the Budget.

     SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any 
     general appropriation bill or bill or joint resolution 
     continuing appropriations, or amendment thereto or conference 
     report thereon, may not provide an advance appropriation.
       (b) Exceptions.--An advance appropriation may be provided 
     for programs, activities, or accounts identified in lists 
     submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the 
     chair of the Committee on the Budget--
       (1) for fiscal year 2024, under the heading ``Accounts 
     Identified for Advance Appropriations'' in an aggregate 
     amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority, 
     and for fiscal year 2025, accounts separately identified 
     under the same heading; and
       (2) for fiscal year 2024, under the heading ``Veterans 
     Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations''.
       (c) Definition.--The term ``advance appropriation'' means 
     any new discretionary budget authority provided in a general 
     appropriation bill or bill or joint resolution continuing 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2023, or any amendment thereto 
     or conference report thereon, that first becomes available 
     following fiscal year 2023.

     SEC. 4. EXPIRATION.

       The provisions of this resolution shall expire upon the 
     adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal 
     year 2023 by the House of Representatives and the Senate.

     

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