Emergency Spending Control Act of 1999

Emergency Spending Control Act of 1999 - Directs the President to include within each annual budget submission a separate appropriation account for appropriations for emergency spending for emergency requirements that equals the annual average of emergency spending for emergency requirements in the five preceding fiscal years.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to define "emergency requirement" as appropriations or spending for a natural disaster declared by the President.

Applies this Act to fiscal years beginning with 2001.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 360 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 360

  To control emergency spending by limiting such spending to natural 
                               disasters.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 1999

   Mr. Grams introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
           referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To control emergency spending by limiting such spending to natural 
                               disasters.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Spending Control Act of 
1999''.

SEC. 2. PRESIDENT'S BUDGET.

    Section 1105(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(33) a separate appropriation account for appropriations 
        for emergency spending for emergency requirements (as defined 
        in section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
        Control Act of 1985) that equals the annual average of 
        emergency spending for emergency requirements in the 5 fiscal 
        years preceding the budget year.''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION OF EMERGENCY SPENDING TO NATURAL DISASTERS.

    Section 250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(20) The term `emergency requirement' means 
        appropriations or spending for a natural disaster declared by 
        the President.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall apply to fiscal 
years beginning with fiscal year 2001.
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