No Adding, No Padding Act

No Adding, No Padding Act

This bill requires the President's annual budget to include additional details regarding current spending levels and proposed increases.

The budget must include (1) a list of programs and funding levels that will be a one-time expense for the year for which the budget is submitted, and (2) a proposal for reducing spending in each of the four years following the year for which the budget is submitted.

For each item in the budget that is being conducted in the current year, the budget must include the funding provided in the current year, any proposed change in the funding, and the justification for the change. If the budget proposes an increase in funding for an item, it must also include the amount of the adjustment that is due to inflation and increases in employee salaries or benefits.

The budget must also include estimates for funding that would be included in the budget for the following year if programs and activities received the same amount of funding as provided in the current year.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4066 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4066

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 25, 2019

  Mr. Schrader (for himself and Mr. Flores) 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``No Adding, No Padding Act''.

SEC. 2. 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) 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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