S. 1740 · 115th Congress
Default Prevention Act
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This bill requires the following obligations to be granted priority over all other U.S. obligations if the public debt reaches the statutory limit:
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Aug 3, 2017
Default Prevention Act
This bill requires the following obligations to be granted priority over all other U.S. obligations if the public debt reaches the statutory limit:
- principal and interest on debt held by the public;
- compensation, allowances, and benefits for members of the Armed Forces on active duty;
- Social Security benefits;
- Medicare benefits; and
- obligations under any program administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
If Congress is notified, the Department of the Treasury may issue additional debt for the priority obligations in excess of the debt limit. Treasury may issue the additional debt during the 30-day period beginning on the date on which the United States is unable to use revenues or extraordinary measures to fully pay the priority obligations at the time they are due.
(The term "extraordinary measures" refers to a series of actions that Treasury may implement to allow the United States to borrow additional funds without exceeding the debt limit. The measures generally include suspensions or delays of debt sales and suspensions or redemptions of investments in certain government funds.)
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Default Prevention Act
Latest action (Aug 3, 2017): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Aug 3, 2017
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.