Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2007

Social Security Protection and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to prohibit the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (Social Security trust funds) from being included in the federal budget baseline for any fiscal year and from being counted as new budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of offsetting any tax decrease or spending increase. Excludes Social Security trust fund receipts and disbursements totals from official Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office budget pronouncements.

Makes proceeds to the Social Security trust funds from Social Security taxes available solely for OASDI purposes. Prohibits their availability for the establishment or funding of private accounts.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1353 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1353

    To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the 
 receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not 
    included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social 
Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by 
 mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private 
                               accounts.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 6, 2007

   Mr. Moore of Kansas (for himself and Mr. Salazar) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, 
  and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the 
 receipts and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not 
    included in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social 
Security contributions are used to protect Social Security solvency by 
 mandating that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private 
                               accounts.

    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 ``Social Security Protection and Truth 
in Budgeting Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS FROM THE UNIFIED 
              FEDERAL BUDGET.

    (a) In General.--Section 201 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
401) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(o)(1) The receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 
Trust Fund (including taxes upon which any such receipts are based)--
            ``(A) shall not be included in the Federal budget baseline 
        for any fiscal year, and
            ``(B) shall not be counted as new budget authority, 
        outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for purposes of--
                    ``(i) offsetting any tax decrease, or
                    ``(ii) offsetting any spending increase.
    ``(2) Any official statement issued by the Office of Management and 
Budget or by the Congressional Budget Office of surplus or deficit 
totals of the budget of the United States Government as submitted by 
the President or of the surplus or deficit totals of the congressional 
budget, and any description of, or reference to, such totals in any 
official publication or material issued by either of such Offices, 
shall exclude the receipts and disbursements totals of the Federal Old-
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund (including taxes upon which any such receipts are 
based).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 2007.

SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.

    Those amounts, equal to taxes imposed under sections 1401 and 3101 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and taxes imposed under chapter 1 
of such Code to the extent attributable to section 86 of such Code, 
which are made available to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund under the 
applicable provisions of law as in effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act, shall be available solely for the purposes of the old-age, 
survivors, and disability insurance program under title II of the 
Social Security Act, as in effect on such date, and shall not be 
available for the establishment or funding of private accounts.
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