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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2415
To amend title 31 of the United States Code to establish government effi-
ciency reserve accounts and to provide for the apportionment of salaries
and expenses.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 15, 1993
Mr. MICHEL (for himself and Mr. SMITH of Texas) introduced the following
bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Government Oper-
ations and Rules
A BILL
To amend title 31 of the United States Code to establish
government efficiency reserve accounts and to provide
for the apportionment of salaries and expenses.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
That this Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reserve Account
for Administrative Savings Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY RESERVE ACCOUNTS.
Subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 1520. Special rule for apportioning salaries and ex-
penses within an appropriation
‘‘(a) All appropriations for salaries and expenses shall
be apportioned as necessary to carry out this section.
‘‘(b)(1) Except as provided by paragraph (2), in ap-
portioning any appropriation for salaries and expenses for
a fiscal year under this section, a reserve shall be estab-
lished in an amount that is equal to 5 percent of the actual
amount incurred for those salaries and expenses in the im-
mediately preceding fiscal year.
‘‘(2) The size of each reserve to be established under
paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall (if applicable) be re-
duced by a dollar amount equal to the amount by which
that fiscal year’s appropriation for salaries and expenses
is less than the actual amount incurred for those salaries
and expenses in the immediately preceding fiscal year.
‘‘(c) Each appropriation subject to this section shall
be apportioned by the appropriate official referred to in
section 1513 and within the applicable time parameters
set forth in that section.
‘‘(d) The head of each agency that has an appropria-
tion for salaries and expenses for a fiscal year subject to
this section shall, within 60 days after the beginning of
that fiscal year or within 60 days after the date of enact-
ment of the law by which the appropriation for that fiscal
year is made available, whichever occurs later, and after
consultation with it chief financial officer and the Deputy
Director for Management (or his or her designee) of the
Office of Management and Budget, make recommenda-
tions to the President of changes in laws or regulations
or other changes that should be made to bring about a
more efficient and cost-effective operation and thereby re-
duce salaries and expenditures without jeopardizing any
programs that agency administers.
‘‘(e) The President’s annual budget submission for
a budget year under section 1105(a) shall include a special
message which sets forth on an agency-by-agency basis a
recommendation for the current fiscal year of whether—
‘‘(1) for the programs that agency administers
to be maintained at a proper administrative level the
release of all or part of those funds held in reserve
under subsection (b) is necessary;
‘‘(2) those programs can function effectively at
reduced levels and the funds held in reserve under
subsection (b) should be rescinded and returned to
the Treasury; or
‘‘(3) supplemental appropriations for other pro-
grams are necessary and can be offset by rescissions
of the funds held in reserve under subsection (b).
If that special message recommends the option set forth
in paragraph (1) for any agency, then the President shall
include with that special message a bill that, if enacted,
would release specified amounts of funds held in reserve
under subsection (b) as set forth in that bill.
‘‘(f) Except to the extent that a law is enacted under
section 1521 requiring the release of all or part of the
money reserved under subsection (b), on August 1 of the
calendar year during which a fiscal year ends, all funds
held in any reserve under subsection (b) respecting that
fiscal year are hereby rescinded and shall be promptly re-
turned to the general fund of the Treasury.
‘‘§ 1521. Fast-track supplemental appropriation of
amounts not to exceed aggregate amount
rescinded under section 1520
‘‘(a)(1) Before the close of the second legislative day
of the House of Representatives after the date of receipt
of a special message transmitted to Congress under sec-
tion 1520(e), the majority leader or minority leader of the
House of Representatives shall introduce (by request) the
draft bill accompanying that special message. If the bill
is not introduced as provided in the preceding sentence,
then, on the third legislative day of the House of Rep-
resentatives after the date of receipt of that special mes-
sage, any Member of that House may introduce the bill.
‘‘(2) The bill shall be referred to the Committee on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The com-
‘‘(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion
or appeal in connection with a bill under this section shall
be limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided
between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager
of the bill, except that in the event the manager of the
bill is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time in
opposition thereto, shall be controlled by the minority
leader or his designee. Such leaders, or either of them,
may, from time under their control on the passage of a
bill, allot additional time to any Senator during the consid-
eration of any debatable motion or appeal.
‘‘(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate
on a bill under this subsection is not debatable. A motion
to recommit a bill under this section is not in order.
‘‘(b) AMENDMENTS AND DIVISIONS.—No amendment
to a bill considered under this section shall be in order
in either the House of Representatives or the Senate ex-
cept an amendment to strike a provision of the bill or to
reduce an amount proposed to be restored by the bill. It
shall not be in order to demand a division of the question
in the House of Representatives (or in a Committee of
the Whole) or in the Senate. No motion to suspend the
application of this subsection shall be in order in either
House, nor shall it be in order in either House to suspend
the application of this subsection by unanimous consent.
‘‘(c) REQUIREMENT TO MAKE AVAILABLE FOR OBLI-
GATION.—Any amount of budget authority proposed to be
restored in a special message transmitted to Congress
under section 1520(e) shall be made available for obliga-
tion on the day after the date on which the bill proposing
to restore such amount of budget authority is enacted into
law unless it has been automatically rescinded under that
section.
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘legislative day’ means, with respect to either House
of Congress, any day during which that House is in ses-
sion.’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by this Act shall only apply
to fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 and
shall have no force or effect after September 30, 1998.
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