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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6144 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to include the outlays 
and revenue totals relating to social security benefits in a concurrent 
resolution on the budget, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 
Mr. GRAVES of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on 
Rules, and Ways and Means, 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 
A BILL 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to include 
the outlays and revenue totals relating to social security 
benefits in a concurrent resolution on the budget, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Accurate Accounting 
Act of 2016’’. 
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TITLE I—SOCIAL SECURITY ON 
BUDGET 
SEC. 101. CONTENT OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE 
BUDGET. 
(a) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974.—Sec-
tion 301(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 632(a)) is amended by striking the matter fol-
lowing paragraph (7). 
(b) BUDGET ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 1990.—Section 
13301 of the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
632 note) is amended by striking subsection (a) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(a) EXCLUSION OF SOCIAL SECURITY FROM ALL 
BUDGETS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age 
and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Dis-
ability Insurance Trust Fund shall not be counted as new 
budget authority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus 
for the purpose of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.).’’. 
SEC. 102. STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO ACT OF 2010. 
Section 3(4) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 
2010 (2 U.S.C. 932(4)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
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‘‘(D) The term ‘savings’ does not include 
budgetary effects that increase the receipts or 
decrease the disbursements of the Federal Old- 
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund or the 
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund.’’. 
TITLE II—ZERO-BASED 
BUDGETING 
SEC. 201. FINDINGS; SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENT-
ATIVES. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
(1) Congress has the authority and responsi-
bility under the Constitution of the United States 
over financial and budgetary matters, including the 
power to appropriate funds; 
(2) it is recognized that the incremental budg-
eting does not lend itself to cost control nor account-
ability in spending; 
(3) a zero-based budget would offer tangible 
savings achieved through more thorough planning 
and more efficient allocation of resources; and 
(4) zero-based budgeting would establish a 
budget based upon current needs rather than pre-
vious expenditures. 
(b) SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that Con-
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gress should establish a plan to apply zero-based budg-
eting to the Federal budgetary process. 
SEC. 202. ZERO-BASED BUDGETING. 
Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(i)(1) The President shall submit with materials re-
lated to the budget transmitted under subsection (a) on 
or after January 1, 2017, and not less than once every 
4 years thereafter, a budget for each department and 
agency that contains the following information: 
‘‘(A) A description of each activity for which 
the department or agency receives an appropriation 
in the current fiscal year or for which the depart-
ment or agency requests an appropriation for the 
fiscal year for which the budget is submitted. 
‘‘(B) The legal basis for each activity described 
in subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) For each activity described in subpara-
graph (A)— 
‘‘(i) three alternative funding levels for the 
fiscal year in which the budget is submitted; 
‘‘(ii) a summary of the priorities that 
would be accomplished within each level; and 
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‘‘(iii) the additional increments of value 
that would be added by the higher funding lev-
els, not fewer than two of which shall be not 
greater than the funding level for the current 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(D) For each activity, one or more measures 
of cost efficiency and effectiveness of the activity. 
‘‘(2) As soon as practicable, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall publish guidelines to 
carry out this subsection, including guidelines that require 
that— 
‘‘(A) the baseline budget of each department or 
agency is assumed to be zero; and 
‘‘(B) each proposed expenditure shall be justi-
fied as if the proposed expenditure is a new expendi-
ture.’’. 
TITLE III—OFF-BUDGET 
PROGRAM ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 401. STUDY BY THE GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 
OF FORMS OF FEDERAL FINANCIAL COMMIT-
MENTS THAT ARE NOT REVIEWED ANNUALLY 
BY CONGRESS. 
The second sentence of section 404 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 654) is amended by 
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striking ‘‘from time to time’’ and ‘‘not less than once every 
5 years’’. 
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