Enforce the Caps Act

Enforce the Caps Act

This bill establishes annual discretionary spending limits for FY2026-FY2029.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4245 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4245

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
 to provide for discretionary spending limits for each of fiscal years 
               2026 through 2029, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2023

 Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Babin, Mr. Barr, Mr. Good of Virginia, 
  Ms. Greene of Georgia, Mr. Harris, Mr. Johnson of South Dakota, Mr. 
   LaMalfa, Mrs. Miller of Illinois, Mr. Norman, Mr. Rouzer, and Mr. 
   Santos) 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 provide for discretionary spending limits for each of fiscal years 
               2026 through 2029, 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 ``Enforce the Caps Act''.

SEC. 2. DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS FOR FISCAL YEARS 2026 THROUGH 
              2029.

    Section 251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)), as amended by the Fiscal Responsibility 
Act of 2023, is further amended--
            (1) in paragraph (9)(B), by striking ``and'' at the end; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (10) the following:
            ``(11) for fiscal year 2026, for the discretionary 
        category, $1,621,959,000,000 in new budget authority;
            ``(12) for fiscal year 2027, for the discretionary 
        category, $1,638,179,000,000 in new budget authority;
            ``(13) for fiscal year 2028, for the discretionary 
        category, $1,654,560,000,000 in new budget authority; and
            ``(14) for fiscal year 2029, for the discretionary 
        category, $1,671,106,000,000 in new budget authority;''.
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