No Budget, No Recess Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9999 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9999

 To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
   to include timely completion of budgetary actions as an essential 
purpose of such Act and to establish limitations on the official travel 
   of Members of Congress upon failure to timely adopt a concurrent 
           resolution on the budget, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 18, 2024

Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Yakym, and Mr. Sorensen) introduced the 
     following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 
 Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and 
 Rules, 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 the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
   to include timely completion of budgetary actions as an essential 
purpose of such Act and to establish limitations on the official travel 
   of Members of Congress upon failure to timely adopt a concurrent 
           resolution on the budget, 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 Budget, No Recess Act''.

SEC. 2. TIMELY COMPLETION OF BUDGETARY ACTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2 of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 621) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (4), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at the end and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) to ensure timely completion of budgetary actions as 
        outlined in this Act.''.
    (b) House Approval of Regular Appropriation Bills.--Section 309 of 
such Act is amended by inserting ``or August'' after ``July''.

SEC. 3. LIMITS ON OFFICIAL TRAVEL OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS UPON FAILURE 
              TO ADOPT A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET IN A 
              TIMELY MANNER.

    (a) Limits on Official Travel.--
            (1) Limitation.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), no 
        amounts may be obligated or expended for official travel by a 
        Member of Congress (including a Delegate or Resident 
        Commissioner to the Congress) during the period described in 
        subsection (b).
            (2) Exceptions.--
                    (A) Return to dc.--If a Member of Congress is away 
                from the seat of Government on the date on which the 
                period described in subsection (b) begins, funds may be 
                obligated and expended for official travel for a single 
                return trip to the seat of Government by the Member of 
                Congress.
                    (B) Travel in national capital region.--During the 
                period described in subsection (b), amounts may be 
                obligated and expended for official travel by a Member 
                of Congress from one location in the National Capital 
                Region to another location in the National Capital 
                Region.
                    (C) National security events.--During the period 
                described in subsection (b), if a national security 
                event that triggers a continuity of operations or 
                continuity of Government protocol occurs, amounts may 
                be obligated and expended for official travel by a 
                Member of Congress for any official travel relating to 
                responding to the national security event or 
                implementing the continuity of operations or continuity 
                of Government protocol.
    (b) Period Described.--The period described in this subsection is 
the period that--
            (1) begins on the next calendar day after April 15 of each 
        calendar year if the House of Representatives and the Senate 
        have not adopted a concurrent resolution on the budget as 
        required by section 301(a) of the Congressional Budget and 
        Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(a)); and
            (2) ends on the date of the adoption of a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget.
    (c) Definitions.--For the purposes of this section--
            (1) a ``calendar day'' shall exclude Saturdays, Sundays, 
        and legal holidays; and
            (2) the term ``National Capital Region'' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 8702 of title 40, United States 
        Code.
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