Emergency Spending Accountability Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3787 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3787

   To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
           offset emergency spending, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 2025

   Mr. Stutzman (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Perry, Mr. Gooden, Mr. 
    Shreve, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Self, and Mr. Norman) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and 
in addition to the Committee on 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 require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
           offset emergency spending, 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 ``Emergency Spending Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SEQUESTRATION TO OFFSET EMERGENCY SPENDING.

    (a) Sequestration.--
            (1) In general.--With respect to any direct spending or 
        discretionary spending that is appropriated or otherwise made 
        available during a fiscal year that is emergency spending, the 
        Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, on 
        October 1 of the subsequent fiscal year and each of the 4 
        following fiscal years, issue a sequestration order that 
        reduces total budgetary resources such that outlay savings 
        equal one-fifth of the total amount of such emergency spending.
            (2) Notification.--The Director shall submit written notice 
        to Congress on the date of any sequestration order under 
        paragraph (1). Such notice shall include a list of any account 
        affected by such order.
            (3) Discretionary and direct spending application.--If 
        emergency spending made available during a fiscal year is 
        discretionary spending, any sequestration under subsection (a) 
        with respect to such emergency spending may only be made with 
        respect to discretionary accounts. If emergency spending made 
        available during a fiscal year is direct spending, any 
        sequestration required under subsection (a) with respect to 
        such emergency spending may only be made to direct spending 
        accounts.
    (b) Application.--With respect to any sequestration under 
subsection (a)--
            (1) except as provided in subsection (c), and 
        notwithstanding any other provision of law, no account is 
        exempted from reduction;
            (2) such reduction shall be at a uniform rate across all 
        programs and activities that are subject to sequestration; and
            (3) the total amount of the sequestration shall be reduced 
        by the amount of any offsetting reduction in discretionary 
        spending or direct spending (as the case may be) in the measure 
        enacted into law that provided the applicable emergency 
        spending.
    (c) Exempt Programs.--The following programs and accounts shall be 
exempt from sequestration under this section:
            (1) Benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and 
        disability insurance program established under title II of the 
        Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), and benefits 
        payable under sections 3 and 4 of the Railroad Retirement Act 
        of 1937 (45 U.S.C. 231 et seq.).
            (2) Any account within budget function 050 (National 
        Defense).
            (3) All programs administered by the Department of Veterans 
        Affairs.
            (4) The Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social 
        Security Act.
    (d) Requirement for Measures Containing Emergency Spending.--
            (1) Reported measures.--With respect to any bill or joint 
        resolution favorably reported by any standing committee of 
        Congress that includes emergency spending, the report 
        accompanying such measure shall include a detailed 
        justification of why each instance of such spending is 
        necessary.
            (2) Other measures.--Any measure considered by the House of 
        Representatives not described in paragraph (1) that includes 
        emergency spending shall include such a detailed explanation, 
        to be published in the Congressional Record prior to 
        consideration.
            (3) Requirements.--Any justification under paragraph (1) or 
        (2) shall include reasons why such spending meets the 
        definitions of the terms ``emergency'' and ``unanticipated'' 
        (as those terms are defined in section 250(c) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985).
    (e) Definitions.--In this Act--
            (1) the terms ``budget authority'' and ``outlays'' have the 
        meaning given those terms in section 3 of the Congressional 
        Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974;
            (2) the terms ``budgetary resources'', ``discretionary 
        spending'', ``direct spending'', and ``sequestration'' have the 
        meaning given those terms in section 250(c) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and
            (3) the term ``emergency spending'' means any budget 
        authority--
                    (A) that is designated--
                            (i) under section 251(b)(2)(A), (D), or (F) 
                        of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
                        Control Act of 1985;
                            (ii) under section 4(g) of the Statutory-
                        Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010; or
                            (iii) under a concurrent resolution on the 
                        budget as being for an emergency; and
                    (B) that is otherwise exempted from counting 
                against any Federal spending limitation, including the 
                discretionary spending limits in section 251(c) of the 
                Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
                1985 or the PAYGO scorecards.
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