Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2024

Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2024

This bill changes the assumptions that the Congressional Budget Office uses to calculate the baseline for discretionary spending. (A baseline is a projection of federal spending and receipts during a fiscal year under current law.) Specifically, the bill changes the assumptions used for the discretionary spending baseline to exclude (1) resources designated as an emergency requirement, and (2) resources provided in supplemental appropriations laws. 

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8068 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8068

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
  to exclude resources designated as an emergency requirement or any 
    resources provided in supplemental appropriations laws from CBO 
 baseline projections for discretionary appropriations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2024

Mr. Grothman (for himself, Mr. Cloud, Ms. Mace, Mr. Norman, Mr. Ogles, 
Mr. Weber of Texas, and Mr. Case) 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 exclude resources designated as an emergency requirement or any 
    resources provided in supplemental appropriations laws 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 ``Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 
2024''.

SEC. 2. CHANGES IN THE BASELINE.

    Section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(C)) is amended in the second sentence of 
paragraph (1) by inserting ``excluding resources designated as an 
emergency requirement and any resources provided in supplemental 
appropriation laws,'' after ``current year,''.
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