H.R. 1536 · 116th Congress
Protecting Our Children’s Future Act of 2019
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This bill makes several changes to the federal budget process. The changes to the budget process include
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Mar 5, 2019
Protecting Our Children's Future Act of 2019
This bill makes several changes to the federal budget process. The changes to the budget process include
- converting the existing annual budget and appropriations process to a biennial process;
- changing the calendar period for the federal fiscal year (currently October 1 through September 30) to January 1 through December 31;
- requiring mandatory spending programs to be subject to the appropriations process with exceptions for Social Security, Medicare, programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and TRICARE;
- requiring the baseline budget of each department or agency to be assumed to be zero and each proposed expenditure to be justified as if it were a new expenditure;
- requiring Congress to consider appropriations bills using procedures similar to the existing budget reconciliation process, which includes expedited procedures that prevent a filibuster and restrict amendments in the Senate; and
- withholding pay for Members of Congress if the House and Senate have not jointly agreed to a congressional budget resolution by June 30 of the first year of a Congress.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Protecting Our Children’s Future Act of 2019
Latest action (Mar 5, 2019): Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, Oversight and Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance · Origin: House · Introduced: Mar 5, 2019
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.