Spending Control and Programs Evaluation Act of 1993

Summary: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
     Title I:  Reauthorization of Government Programs 
     Title II:  Program Inventory 
     Title III:  Program Reexamination 
     Title IV:  Miscellaneous 
Spending Control and Programs Evaluation Act of 1993 - 
Title I: Reauthorizations of Government Programs
 - Requires each Government program to be reauthorized at least once during each sunset reauthorization cycle.  (Sunset reauthorization cycle means the period of five Congresses beginning with the 103d Congress and with each sixth Congress following the 103d Congress.) 
Sets forth the procedure in the House of Representatives and the Senate for the consideration of any legislation which authorizes new budget authority. 
Subjects to congressional review only those programs which have as their objectives the protection and implementation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution and specified social security and retirement pay and benefits. 
Title II:  Program Inventory
 - Directs the Comptroller General and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Research Service, to prepare an inventory of Federal programs to advise and assist the Congress in carrying out titles I and III of this Act. 
Directs the congressional committees, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Congressional Research Service to review the program inventory and to suggest revisions.  Requires that the program inventory be revised at the end of each session of the Congress and that such revisions be reported to each House. 
Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office and the Comptroller General to include in certain reports to the Congress an assessment of the adequacy of functional and subfunctional categories for grouping programs of like missions or objectives. 
Title III:  Program Reexamination
 - Establishes a procedure for each committee of the Senate and the House of Representatives to reexamine selected programs or groups of programs over which it has jurisdiction. 
Title IV:  Miscellaneous
 - Directs the President, with the cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, to submit to the Congress a regulatory duplication and conflicts report for all programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress. 
Requires appropriate congressional committees to introduce a sunset reauthorization bill not later than 15 days after the beginning of the second regular session of the Congress.  Sets forth discharge procedures to apply to motions to discharge such bills. 
Requires specified congressional committees to report on a review of the procedures established under this Act by December 31, 1998, and every five years thereafter. 
Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years ending before October 1, 2003.

AND REPORT.

    (a) Funding Resolution and Report.--(1) The funding resolution 
first reported by each committee of the Senate in 1994, and thereafter 
for the first session of each Congress, shall include, and the first 
funding resolution introduced by each committee of the House of 
Representatives (and referred to the Committee on House Administration) 
for such year and thereafter for the first session of each Congress 
shall include, a section setting forth the committee's plan for 
reexamination of programs under this title. Such plan shall include 
each of the following matters:
            (A) The programs to be reexamined and the reasons for their 
        selection.
            (B) The scheduled completion date for each program 
        reexamination, which date shall not be later than the end of 
        the Congress preceding the Congress in which the 
        reauthorization date applicable to a program occurs as provided 
        in section 101(b), unless the committee explains in a statement 
        in the report accompanying its proposed funding resolution (in 
        the Senate), or in a statement supplied by the respective 
        committee and included in the report of the Committee on House 
        Administration (in the House of Representatives), the reasons 
        for a later completion date, except that reports on programs 
        scheduled for reauthorization during the 103d Congress and 
        selected for reexamination in a committee's plan adopted in 
        1993 may be submitted at any time on or before February 15, 
        1994.
            (C) The estimated cost for each reexamination.
    (2) The report accompanying the funding resolution reported by each 
committee of the Senate in 1993 and thereafter for the first session of 
each Congress, shall include, and the report accompanying the funding 
resolution reported by the Committee on House Administration with 
respect to each committee of the House of Representatives shall 
include, a statement of that committee, with respect to each 
reexamination in its plan, of each of the following matters:
            (A) A description of the components of the reexamination.
            (B) A statement of whether the reexamination is to be 
        conducted (i) by the committee, or (ii) at the request and 
        under the direction of or under contract with the committee, as 
        the case may be, by one or more instrumentalities of the 
        legislative branch, one or more instrumentalities of the 
        executive branch, or one or more nongovernmental organizations, 
        or (iii) by a combination of the foregoing.
    (3) It shall not be in order to consider a funding resolution with 
respect to a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives in 
1993, and thereafter for the first session of a Congress, unless--
            (A) such resolution includes a section containing the 
        information described in paragraph (1) and the report 
        accompanying such resolution contains the information described 
        in paragraph (2); and
            (B) the report required by subsection (c) with respect to 
        each program reexamination scheduled for completion during the 
        preceding Congress by such committee has been submitted for 
        printing.
    (4) It shall not be in order to consider an amendment to the 
section of a funding resolution described in paragraph (1) reported by 
a committee of the Senate for a year, or reported by the Committee on 
House Administration with respect to a committee of the House of 
Representatives for a year--
            (A) if such amendment would require reexamination of a 
        program which has been reexamined by such committee under this 
        section during any of the five preceding years;
            (B) if such amendment would cause such section not to 
        contain the information described in paragraph (1) with respect 
        to each program to be reexamined by such committee; or
            (C) if notice of intention to propose such amendment has 
        not been given to such committee and, in the case of an 
        amendment in the Senate, to the Committee on Rules and 
        Administration of the Senate, or, in the case of an amendment 
        in the House of Representatives, to the Committee on House 
        Administration, not later than January 20 of the calendar year 
        in which such year begins or the first day of the session of 
        the Congress in which such year begins, whichever is later.
The notice required by subparagraph (C) shall include the substance of 
the amendment intended to be proposed, and, if such amendment would add 
one or more programs to be reexamined, shall include the information 
described in paragraphs (1) and (2) with respect to each such program. 
Subparagraph (C) shall not apply to amendments proposed by such 
committee or by the Committee on Rules and Administration or House 
Administration, as the case may be.
    (b) Consultation With Other Committees.--In order to achieve 
coordination of program reexamination each committee shall, in 
preparing each reexamination plan required by subsection (a), consult 
with appropriate committees of the Senate or appropriate committees of 
the House of Representatives, as the case may be, and shall inform 
itself of related activities of and support or assistance that may be 
provided by (1) the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget 
Office, the Congressional Research Service, and the Office of 
Technology Assessment, and (2) appropriate instrumentalities in the 
executive and judicial branches.
    (c) Committee Reports.--Each committee shall prepare and have 
printed a report with respect to each reexamination completed under 
this title. Each such report shall be delivered to the Secretary of the 
Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case may 
be, not later than the date specified in the resolution and printed as 
a Senate or House document, accordingly. To the extent permitted by law 
or regulation, such number of additional copies as the committee may 
order shall be printed for the use of the committee. If two or more 
committees have legislative jurisdiction over the same program or 
portions of the same program, such committees may reexamine such 
program jointly and submit a joint report with respect to such 
reexamination.
    (d) Contents of Committee Report.--The report pursuant to 
subsection (c) shall set forth the findings, recommendations, and 
justifications with respect to the program, and shall include to the 
extent the committee deems appropriate, each of the following matters:
            (1) An identification of the objectives intended for the 
        program and the problem it was intended to address.
            (2) An identification of any trends, developments, and 
        emerging conditions which are likely to affect the future 
        nature and extent of the problems or needs which the program is 
        intended to address and an assessment of the potential primary 
        and secondary effects of the proposed program.
            (3) An identification of any other program having 
        potentially conflicting or duplicative objectives.
            (4) A statement of the number and types of beneficiaries or 
        persons served by the program.
            (5) An assessment of the effectiveness of the program and 
        the degrees to which the original objectives of the program or 
        group of programs have been achieved.
            (6) An assessment of the cost effectiveness of the program, 
        including where appropriate, a cost-benefit analysis of the 
        operation of the program.
            (7) An assessment of the relative merits of alternative 
        methods which could be considered to achieve the purposes of 
        the program.
            (8) Information on the regulatory, privacy, and paperwork 
        impacts of the program.
    (e) Title I Satisfied.--A report submitted pursuant to this section 
shall be deemed to satisfy the reauthorization review requirements of 
title I.

SEC. 303. EXECUTIVE REVIEW.

    Each department or agency of the executive branch which is 
responsible for the administration of a program selected for 
reexamination pursuant to this title shall, not later than 6 months 
before the completion date specified for reexamination reports pursuant 
to section 302(a)(1)(B), submit to the Office of Management and Budget 
and to the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives a report of its findings, recommendations, and 
justifications with respect to each of the matters set forth in section 
302(d), and the Office of Management and Budget shall submit to such 
committee or committees such comments as it deems appropriate.

SEC. 304. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this title--
            (1) the term ``funding resolution'' means, with respect to 
        each committee of the House of Representatives, the primary 
        funding resolution for such committee which is effective for 
        the duration of a Congress; and
            (2) an amendment to a funding resolution includes a 
        resolution of the Senate which amends such funding resolution.

                        TITLE IV--MISCELLANEOUS

SEC. 401. AGENCY APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS.

    Section 1108(e) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting before the period a comma and ``or at the request of a 
committee of either House of Congress presented after the day on which 
the President transmits the budget to the Congress under section 1105 
of this title for the fiscal year''.

SEC. 402. NONDISCLOSURE.

    Nothing in this Act shall require the public disclosure of matters 
that are specifically authorized under criteria established by an 
Executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense 
or foreign policy and are in fact properly classified pursuant to such 
Executive order, or which are otherwise specifically protected by law.

SEC. 403. RULEMAKING.

    The provisions of this section and sections 101(a), 101(b), 
101(c)(1), 101(c)(2), 101(c)(5), 102, 104(b), 104(c), 104(d), 104(e), 
104(f), title III (except section 303), section 405, and section 406 of 
this Act are enacted by the Congress--
            (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the Senate 
        and the House of Representatives respectively, and as such they 
        shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, 
        respectively, or of that House to which they specifically 
        apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the 
        extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and
            (2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of 
        either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such 
        House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 
        as in the case of any other rule of such House.

SEC. 404. EXECUTIVE ASSISTANCE AND REGULATORY DUPLICATION AND CONFLICTS 
              REPORT.

    (a) Executive Assistance.--(1) To assist in the review or 
reexamination of a program, the head of an agency which administers 
such program and the head of any other agency, when requested, shall 
provide to each committee of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives which has legislative jurisdiction over such program 
such studies, information, analyses, reports, and assistance as the 
committee may request.
    (2) Not later than 6 months before the first reauthorization date 
specified for a program in section 101(b) the head of the agency which 
administers such program or the head of any other agency, when 
requested by a committee of the Senate or the House of Representatives, 
shall conduct a review of those regulations currently promulgated and 
in use by that agency which the committee specifically has requested be 
reviewed and submit a report to the Senate or the House of 
Representatives as the case may be, setting forth the regulations that 
agency intends to retain, eliminate, or modify if the program is 
reauthorized and stating the basis for its decision.
    (3) On or before October 1 of the year preceding the beginning of 
the Congress in which occurs the reauthorization date for a program, 
the Comptroller General shall furnish to each committee of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives which has legislative jurisdiction 
over such program a listing of the prior audits and reviews of such 
program completed during the preceding 6 years.
    (4) Consistent with the discharge of the duties and functions 
imposed by law on them or their respective Offices or Service, the 
Comptroller General, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, 
the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Director 
of the Congressional Research Service shall furnish to each committee 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives such information, 
analyses, and reports as the committee may request to assist it in 
conducting reviews or evaluations of programs.
    (b) Regulatory Duplication and Conflict Report.--(1) On or before 
October 1 of the year preceding the beginning of the Congress in which 
occurs the reauthorization date for a program, the President, with the 
cooperation of the head of each appropriate agency, shall submit to the 
Congress a ``Regulatory Duplication and Conflict Report'' for all such 
programs scheduled for reauthorization in the next Congress.
    (2) Each such regulatory duplication and conflicts report shall--
            (A) identify regulatory policies, including data collection 
        requirements, of such programs or the agencies which administer 
        them, which duplicate or conflict with each other or with rules 
        or regulations or regulatory policies of other programs or 
        agencies, and identify the provisions of law which authorize or 
        require such duplicative or conflicting regulatory policies or 
        the promulgation of such duplicative or conflicting rules or 
        regulations;
            (B) identify the regulatory policies, including data 
        collection requirements, of such programs which are, or which 
        tend to be, duplicative of or in conflict with rules or 
        regulations or regulatory policies of State or local 
        governments; and
            (C) contain recommendations which address the conflicts or 
        duplications identified in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
    (3) The regulatory duplication and conflicts report submitted by 
the President pursuant to this subsection shall be referred to the 
committee or committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
with legislative jurisdiction over the programs affected by the 
reports.

SEC. 405. SUNSET REAUTHORIZATION BILL.

    (a) Committee Introduction.--Not later than 15 days after the 
beginning of the second regular session of the Congress in which occurs 
the reauthorization date applicable to a program under section 101(b), 
the chairmen of the committees of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives having legislative jurisdiction over such programs 
shall introduce, in their respective Houses, a bill which, if enacted 
into law, would constitute a required authorization (as defined in 
section 101(c)(1)(B)), and such a bill (hereafter in this section 
referred to as a ``sunset reauthorization bill'') shall be referred to 
the appropriate committee of the Senate or the House of 
Representatives, as the case may be. This subsection shall not apply in 
the case of a program which has been reauthorized by a required 
authorization which was signed into law by the President prior to 15 
days after the beginning of the second regular session of the Congress 
in which occurs the reauthorization date applicable to such program.
    (b) Discharge for Failure To Consider.--If the committee to which a 
sunset reauthorization bill for a program has not reported such bill by 
May 15 of the year in which the reauthorization date for such program 
occurs, and no other bill which would constitute a required 
authorization for such program has been enacted into law by that date, 
it is in order to move to discharge the committee from further 
consideration of the sunset reauthorization bill at any time 
thereafter.
    (c) Discharge Procedures.--The provisions of section 912(a) of 
title 5, United States Code, as it relates to the discharge of 
resolutions of disapproval on reorganization plans, shall apply to 
motions to discharge sunset reauthorization bills, and the provisions 
of subsections (b)(2), (c) (2) through (5), and (d) of section 1017 of 
the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, insofar as they relate to the 
consideration of rescission bills shall apply to the consideration of 
such sunset reauthorization bills, amendments thereto, motions and 
appeals with respect thereto, and conference reports thereon.

SEC. 406. COMMITTEE JURISDICTION OVER ACT.

    The Committees on Governmental Affairs and on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and the Committees on Government 
Operations and on Rules of the House of Representatives shall review 
the operation of the procedures established by this Act, and shall 
submit a report not later than December 31, 1998, and each 5 years 
thereafter, setting forth their findings and recommendations. Such 
reviews and reports may be conducted jointly.

SEC. 407. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years ending 
before October 1, 2003, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
review requirement of titles I and III and the requirements for the 
compilation of the inventory of Federal programs as set forth in title 
II.

                                 

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