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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5484 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5484

      To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity 
                  discretionary spending of 1 percent.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           December 11, 2024

Mrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL

 
      To provide for across-the-board rescissions of nonsecurity 
                  discretionary spending of 1 percent.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS.

    (a) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Budget authority.--The term ``budget authority'' has 
        the meaning given that term in section 3 of the Congressional 
        Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622).
            (2) Discretionary appropriations; security category.--The 
        terms ``discretionary appropriations'' and ``security 
        category'' have the meanings given such terms in section 250(c) 
        of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
        1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)).
            (3) Nonsecurity discretionary appropriations.--The term 
        ``nonsecurity discretionary appropriations'' means 
        discretionary appropriations provided in a regular 
        appropriation Act that are not included in the security 
        category.
            (4) Regular appropriation act.--The term ``regular 
        appropriation Act''--
                    (A) means an annual appropriation Act (as described 
                in section 105 of title 1, United States Code) 
                providing new budget authority for the programs, 
                projects, and activities under the jurisdiction of a 
                subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the 
                Senate; and
                    (B) includes--
                            (i) a title, division, or other subdivision 
                        of an Act or resolution that, if it were a 
                        separate Act, would be an Act described in 
                        subparagraph (A); and
                            (ii) a resolution or Act, or a title, 
                        division, or other subdivision of a resolution 
                        or Act, making continuing appropriations for a 
                        fiscal year.
    (b) Rescission.--For fiscal year 2026, and each fiscal year 
thereafter, effective on the day after the date on which appropriations 
are made available through September 30 of the applicable fiscal year 
for the entire Federal Government, there is rescinded, on a pro rata 
basis, 1 percent of the nonsecurity discretionary appropriations made 
available for such fiscal year.
    (c) OMB Reports.--For fiscal year 2026, and each fiscal year 
thereafter, not later than 30 days after the date on which 
appropriations are made available through September 30 of such fiscal 
year for the entire Federal Government, the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives a report specifying the account and amount of each 
rescission made pursuant to subsection (b).
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