Zero Baseline Budget Act of 2006

Zero Baseline Budget Act of 2006 - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to eliminate sequential and cumulative adjustments for inflation from Congressional Budget Office (CBO) baseline projections for discretionary appropriations with respect to: (1) expiring housing contracts and social insurance administrative expenses; (2) offset pay absorption and pay annualization; (3) inflation; and (4) any accounting for changes required by law in the level of agency payments for personnel benefits other than pay.

Exempts from the requirement that budgetary resources (other than unobligated balances) be at the level available in the current year any resources designated as an emergency requirement or provided in supplemental appropriations laws.

Prohibits adjustments for inflation or or any other factor.

Amends the Act to extend indefinitely the formula used to calculate the baseline.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5470 Introduced in House (IH)]








109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5470

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline 
 projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 24, 2006

 Mr. Gohmert (for himself, Mr. Hensarling, Mr. Gutknecht, Mr. Chabot, 
Mr. Brady of Texas, Ms. Foxx, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Rohrabacher, Mr. Akin, 
Mr. Wamp, Mr. Garrett of New Jersey, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Mr. Flake, 
Mr. Chocola, Mr. McHenry, Mr. Feeney, Mr. Price of Georgia, Mr. Weldon 
  of Florida, Mr. Goode, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Barrett of South 
  Carolina, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Campbell of California, Mr. 
   Hall, and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
   to eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline 
 projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Zero Baseline Budget Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. CHANGES IN THE BASELINE.

    Section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in the second sentence of paragraph (1), by striking 
        everything that follows ``current year,'' and inserting 
        ``excluding resources designated as an emergency requirement 
        and any resources provided in supplemental appropriation 
        laws.'';
            (2) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5);
            (3) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (2); and
            (4) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(3) No adjustment for inflation.--No adjustment shall be 
        made for inflation or for any other factor.''.

SEC. 3. EXTENSION.

    The second sentence of section 275(b) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting ``other 
than subsections (a) through (d) of section 257'' after ``title''.
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