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 1999-04-01 monographic deposited born digital 33 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-99-100 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100 P0b002ee18039f5bf f:ai99100 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100 AIMD-99-100 Spending legislation Budget scorekeeping Budget administration Reporting requirements Agency reports Noncompliance Letter Report AIMD I99100 Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed 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, focusing on OMB and CBO reports issued for legislation enacted during the 2nd session of the 105th Congress, which ended on October 21, 1998. GAO noted that: (1) CBO and OMB 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 calendar 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) 1999 sequestration update report on August 26, 1998--6 days late; (6) its final report was issued December 10, 1998--35 days later than the required date of November 5, 1998; (7) if OMB had issued its report on the required date, the report would have excluded, at a minimum, nine pieces of legislation that were passed by Congress but that had not been signed by the President before DCA's 15-day deadline; (8) assuming no other changes in the issuance of other scoring reports, the final sequestration report would not have included the impact of 5 of the appropriations acts and 18 of the 51 pieces of pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) legislation; (9) as was the case for FY 1997 and FY 1998, OMB issued many of its FY 1999 scorekeeping reports late; (10) all 7 of its discretionary scorekeeping reports and 41 of its 51 PAYGO scorekeeping reports were issued later than the time specified by law; (11) the DCA requires OMB to issue scorekeeping reports within 7 working days after enactment; (12) on average, the 1999 reports were issued 11.2 working days after enactment; (13) of the 58 reports issued prior to the issuance of the final sequestration report, 83 percent were issued late, a decline in timeliness from FY 1998 and FY 1997 reports; (14) half of the 1998 reports and about 70 percent of the 1997 reports were issued late; (15) according to OMB, part of the reason for the increased delay was the volume of legislation enacted at the end of this session of Congress; (16) five of the seven discretionary acts were enacted in the last 2 weeks of the session; (17) one-third of the PAYGO legislation was enacted in the last 2 weeks of the session or before the statutory date for OMB's final sequestration report; (18) GAO found several implementation issues in which OMB and CBO differed in: (a) PAYGO scorekeeping; (b) appropriations scoring; and (c) cap adjustments; and (19) the use of emergency spending designations was different this year than in prior years. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100.pdf GAO/AIMD-99-100 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-99-100 Letter Report GAO/AIMD-99-100; Budget Issues: Budget Enforcement Compliance Report; Spending legislation Budget scorekeeping Budget administration Reporting requirements Agency reports Noncompliance Public Law 102-368 Public Law 105-174 Public Law 105-178 Public Law 105-206 Public Law 105-237 Public Law 105-244 Public Law 105-245 Public Law 105-262 Public Law 105-275 Public Law 105-276 Public Law 105-277