IIB 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 444 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 7, 2013 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget 

AN ACT 

To require that, if the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget 

does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by 

such budget, the President shall submit a supplemental 

unified budget by April 1, 2013, which identifies a fiscal 

year in which balance is achieved, and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Require Presidential 

5 Leadership and No Deficit Act’’ or the ‘‘Require a PLAN 

6 Act’’. 

7 SEC. 2. PURPOSE AND FINDINGS. 

8 (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to require 

9 the President to submit to Congress a supplemental uni10 fied budget if the President’s budget for fiscal year 2014 

11 does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such 

12 budget. 

13 (b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

14 (1) With this year’s expected failure to meet the 

15 statutory deadline for submission of his budget, as 

16 stated by the Office of Management and Budget, the 

17 President will have only met the statutory deadline 

18 in one of his five budget submissions. 

19 (2) Despite a promise to cut the deficit in half, 

20 the deficit doubled during the President’s first year 

21 in office and has exceeded $1 trillion for four years 

22 now. 

23 (3) Since taking office, the President has al24 lowed the Federal debt to grow by nearly $6 trillion 


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1 and total debt now exceeds the size of the entire 

2 economy of the United States. 

3 (4) Under the President’s most recent budget 

4 submission, the budget never achieves balance. 

5 (5) The President’s fiscal year 2013 budget 

6 submission includes the admission that under his 

7 own policies the Federal Government’s ‘‘fiscal posi8 tion gradually deteriorates’’. 

9 SEC. 3. SUBMISSION OF A SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFIED BUDG10 ET. 

11 (a) IN GENERAL.—If the President’s budget for fis12 cal year 2014, submitted to Congress pursuant to section 

13 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, results in a pro14 jected deficit in every fiscal year for which estimates are 

15 provided in such budget, then the President shall submit 

16 a supplemental unified budget pursuant to subsection (b). 

17 (b) CONTENTS OF SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFIED BUDG18 ET.—Not later than April 1, 2013, the President shall 

19 submit to Congress a supplemental unified budget that in20 cludes— 

21 (1) the information required under section 

22 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code; 

23 (2) an estimate of the earliest fiscal year in 

24 which the supplemental budget is not projected to 

25 result in a deficit; 


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1 (3) a detailed description of additional policies 

2 to be implemented in order to achieve such result 

3 (including an evaluation of duplicative agency func4 tions and agency effectiveness, and proposals for 

5 consolidating duplicative functions and programs be6 tween agencies in the interests of cost-savings); 

7 (4) an explanation of the differences between 

8 the President’s budget for fiscal year 2014 and the 

9 supplemental unified budget referred to in this sub10 section; 

11 (5) an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the 

12 annual deficit for each year in which the supple13 mental unified budget is projected to result in a def14 icit; and 

15 (6) under a separate heading entitled ‘‘Direct 

16 Spending’’, which shall include a category for 

17 ‘‘Means-Tested Direct Spending’’ and a category for 

18 ‘‘Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending’’ and sets 

19 forth— 

20 (A) the average rate of growth for each 

21 category in the total amount of outlays during 

22 the 10-year period preceding the budget year; 

23 (B) information on the budget proposals 

24 for reform of such programs; 


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1 (C) a description of programs which shall 

2 be considered means-tested direct spending and 

3 nonmeans-tested direct spending for purposes 

4 of this paragraph; and 

5 (D) an annual estimate of the total 

6 amount of outlays for each such program for 

7 the period covered by the budget proposal. 

8 (c) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘unified budget’’ means 

9 the total level of outlays, total level of receipts, and the 

10 resulting deficit or surplus of the United States Govern11 ment for a fiscal year. 

Passed the House of Representatives February 6, 

2013. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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