[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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