United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-05-31 monographic deposited born digital 48 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-00-174 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174 P0b002ee18037cc41 f:ai00174 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174 AIMD-00-174 Budget scorekeeping Noncompliance Budget outlays Reporting requirements Balanced budgets Deficit reduction Budget deficit Medicare Program Medicaid Program Letter Report AIMD Y2000 Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed compliance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) with the requirements of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. The assessment covers OMB and CBO reports issued for legislation enacted during the 1st session of the 106th Congress, which ended on November 22, 1999.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) overall, OMB and CBO substantially complied with the act; (2) however, some of the required OMB reports were issued late; (3) the Deficit Control Act (DCA) sets a specific timetable for issuance of OMB reports; (4) by law, OMB must issue sequestration reports at three specific times during the year: (a) the preview report when the President submits his budget; (b) the update on August 20; and (c) the final report 15 days after the end of a congressional session; (5) OMB issued its fiscal year (FY) 2000 Sequestration Update Report on August 25, 1999--5 days late; (6) its final sequestration report for FY 2000 was issued on January 25, 2000--49 days later than the required date of December 7, 1999; (7) the extremely late issuance of OMB's final report resulted in the late issuance of CBO's FY 2001 Sequestration Preview Report; (8) DCA requires that CBO issue a sequestration preview report for the coming fiscal year 5 days before the President submits his budget to Congress; (9) because OMB's final sequestration report for FY 2000 was issued 49 days late, CBO did not have the data needed to use as the starting point to update its estimates for FY 2001 and issue its report in a timely manner; (10) this in turn meant that OMB did not have CBO's published adjustments to include in the OMB FY 2001 Preview Report, published in the President's budget, which was issued in February 2000; (11) as has been the case for the past 3 fiscal years, OMB issued most of its FY 2000 scorekeeping reports late; (12) on average, the FY 2000 discretionary spending reports were 39 working days late and the pay-as-you-go reports were 7 working days late; (13) OMB's timeliness on these reports has continued to be a problem; (14) excluding final sequestration reports, 94 percent of FY 2000 reports were late, 83 percent of FY 1999 reports were late, 50 percent of the 1998 reports were late, and about 70 percent of the 1997 reports were late; (15) the extremely late issuance of OMB's final sequestration report could have had an impact on the report's usefulness for its original purposes; and (16) CBO and OMB also differed substantially in scoring various appropriation acts. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174.pdf GAO/AIMD-00-174 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-00-174 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-00-174; Budget Issues: Budget Enforcement Compliance Report; Budget scorekeeping Noncompliance Budget outlays Reporting requirements Balanced budgets Deficit reduction Budget deficit Medicare Program Medicaid Program Public Law 105-174 Public Law 105-178 Public Law 106-31 Public Law 106-52 Public Law 106-57 Public Law 106-58 Public Law 106-60 Public Law 106-69 Public Law 106-74 Public Law 106-78 Public Law 106-79 Public Law 106-113 Public Law 106-117 Public Law 106-170