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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4907
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
AUGUST 16 (legislative day, AUGUST 11), 1994
Received; read twice and referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4,
1977, to the Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with
instructions that if one committee reports, the other committee have thir-
ty days to report or be discharged
AN ACT
To reform the concept of baseline budgeting.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Baseline Reform Act
of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. THE BASELINE.
(a) The second sentence of section 257(c) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘but only for the purpose of
adjusting the discretionary spending limits set forth
in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974’’ after ‘‘for inflation as specified in
paragraph (5); and
(2) by inserting ‘‘but only for the purpose of
adjusting the discretionary spending limits set forth
in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974’’ after ‘‘to offset pay absorption and for
pay annualization as specified in paragraph (4)’’.
(b) Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by adding after the first sentence the following
new sentence: ‘‘These estimates shall not include an ad-
justment for inflation for programs and activities subject
to discretionary appropriations.’’.
SEC. 3. THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET.
(a) Paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this
section, estimated expenditures and appropriations
for the current year and estimated expenditures and
proposed appropriations the President decides are
necessary to support the Government in the fiscal
year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fis-
cal years following that year;’’.
(b) Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘current fiscal year and
the’’ before ‘‘fiscal year’’.
(c) Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (A), by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’
at the end of subparagraph (B), and by adding at the end
the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(C) the estimated amount for the same activ-
ity (if any) in the current fiscal year.’’.
(d) Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘new budget authority
and’’ before ‘‘budget outlays’’.
(e) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(30) a comparison of levels of estimated ex-
penditures and proposed appropriations for each
function and subfunction in the current fiscal year
and the fiscal year for which the budget is submit-
ted, along with the proposed increase or decrease of
spending in percentage terms for each function and
subfunction.’’.
SEC. 4. THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET.
Section 301(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974 is amended by—
(1) inserting after the second sentence the fol-
lowing: ‘‘The starting point for any deliberations in
the Committee on the Budget of each House on the
concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fis-
cal year shall be the estimated level of outlays for
the current year in each function and subfunction.
Any increases or decreases in the Congressional
budget for the next fiscal year shall be from such es-
timated levels.’’; and
(2) striking paragraph (8) and redesignating
paragraphs (9) and (10) as paragraphs (10) and
(11), respectively, and by inserting after paragraph
(7) the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(8) a comparison of levels for the current fis-
cal year with proposed spending and revenue levels
for the subsequent fiscal years along with the pro-
posed increase or decrease of spending in percentage
terms for each function and subfunction; and
‘‘(9) information, data, and comparisons indi-
cating the manner in which and the basis on which,
the committee determined each of the matters set
forth in the concurrent resolution;’’.