To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any proposed spending increases, and for other purposes.

Requires the President's budget submission to Congress to: (1) list each program, and its proposed funding level, that will be a one-time expense for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted; and, in addition to the performance standards required, (2) a proposal, by budget function and agency, for reductions in spending for each of the four ensuing fiscal years.

Requires the President, for each budget item being conducted in the current fiscal year, to provide: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for the item in that year, and (2) the amount of any proposed adjustment in the funding level for the item and its justification.

Requires the President, if he proposes an adjustment resulting in a funding increase for a budget item, to include with the proposal the amount of the adjustment that is a result of inflation and the amount that is a result of an increase in employees' salaries or benefits.

Requires the President to provide for each major program in a budget function specified in the required estimated budget outlays and proposed budget authority: (1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available for it in the current fiscal year; and (2) a separate amount (if any) of its expected increase in the following fiscal year owing to inflation, pay increases, or benefit increases.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2686 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2686

To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's 
   annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year 
spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any 
          proposed spending increases, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 11, 2013

   Mr. Schrader (for himself, Mr. Reed, Mr. Bera of California, Mr. 
Coffman, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Dent, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Griffin of Arkansas, Ms. 
     Kuster, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Peters of 
California, Mr. Petri, Mr. Ribble, Mr. Ruiz, and Mr. Young of Indiana) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide that the President's 
   annual budget submission to Congress list the current fiscal year 
spending level for each proposed program and a separate amount for any 
          proposed spending increases, 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. CURRENT SERVICE LEVEL BUDGETING AMENDMENTS.

    (a) President's Budget Submission.--Section 1105 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (a)--
                    (A) by striking ``(37) the list'' and inserting 
                ``(39) the list''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(40) a list of each program, and the proposed funding 
        level for such program, that will be a one-time expense for the 
        fiscal year for which the budget is submitted.
            ``(41) in addition to the performance standards 
        requirements of paragraph (28), a proposal, by budget function 
        and agency, for spending reductions in spending for each of the 
        4 fiscal years after the fiscal year for which the budget is 
        submitted.''.
            (2) By adding at the end the following:
    ``(i)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, with 
respect to each item in the budget submitted under this section that is 
being conducted in the current fiscal year, the President shall provide 
the following:
            ``(A) The amount appropriated or otherwise made available 
        for such item in such year.
            ``(B) The amount (if any) of a proposed adjustment in the 
        funding level for such item and the justification for such 
        change.
    ``(2) If the President proposes an adjustment under paragraph 
(1)(B) that will result in an increase in funding with respect to an 
item in the budget, the President shall include with such proposal the 
following:
            ``(A) The amount of such adjustment which is a result of 
        inflation.
            ``(B) The amount of such adjustment that is a result of an 
        increase in salaries or benefits for employees.''.
    (b) Current Programs and Activities Estimates.--Section 1109 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (a)--
                    (A) in the first sentence, by striking ``were 
                carried'' and all that follows through ``change in 
                policy'' and inserting ``received the same amount of 
                budget authority as provided in the current fiscal 
                year''; and
                    (B) in the third sentence, by striking ``The 
                President'' and inserting ``Consistent with the 
                requirements of subsection (c), the President''.
            (2) By adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) With respect to each program listed under subsection (a), the 
President shall provide--
            ``(1) the amount appropriated or otherwise made available 
        for such program in the current fiscal year; and
            ``(2) a separate amount (if any) of the expected increase 
        in the following fiscal year for such program due to inflation, 
        pay increases, or benefit increases.''.
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