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agency action, or proposed agency action
of direct interest to the grantee and such
members, other than communications de-
scribed in subparagraph (C);
(iv) any communication with a govern-
mental official or employee; other than—
(I) a communication with a mem-
ber or employee of a legislative body
or agency (where such communication
would otherwise constitute the influ-
encing of legislation or agency action);
or
(II) a communication the prin-
cipal purpose of which is to influence
legislation or agency action; and
(v) official communications by employ-
ees of State or local governments, or by or-
ganizations whose membership consists ex-
clusively of State or local governments.
(C) COMMUNICATIONS WITH MEMBERS.—
(i) A communication between a grant-
ee and any bona fide member of such orga-
nization to directly encourage such member
to communicate as provided in paragraph
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(2)(A)(ii) shall be treated as a (2)(A)(ii)
communication by the grantee itself.
(ii)
A
communication
between
a
grantee and any bona fide member of such
organization to directly encourage such
member to urge persons other than mem-
bers to communicate as provided in either
clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (2)(A) shall
be treated as a communication described in
paragraph (2)(A)(i).
(3) The term ‘‘legislation’’ includes the intro-
duction, amendment, enactment, passage, defeat,
ratification, or repeal of Acts, bills, resolutions, trea-
ties, declarations, confirmations, articles of impeach-
ment, or similar items by the Congress, any State
legislature, any local council or similar governing
body, or by the public in a referendum, initiative,
constitutional amendment, recall, confirmation, or
similar procedure.
(4) The term ‘‘grant’’ includes the provision of
any Federal funds, appropriated under this or any
other Act, or other thing of value to carry out a pub-
lic purpose of the United States, except: the provi-
sion of funds for acquisition (by purchase, lease or
barter) of property or services for the direct benefit
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or use of the United States; the payments of loans,
debts, entitlements; or the provision of funds to or
distribution of funds by an Article I or III court and
the provision of grant and scholarship funds to stu-
dents for educational purposes.
(5) The term ‘‘grantee’’ includes any recipient
of any grant. The term shall not include any state
or local government, but shall include any recipient
receiving a grant (as defined by subsection c(4))
from a state or local government.
(6) The term ‘‘agency action’’ includes the defi-
nition contained in section 551 of Title 5, United
States Code, and includes action by state or local
government agencies.
(7) The term ‘‘agency proceeding’’ includes the
definition contained in section 551 of Title 5, United
States Code, and includes proceedings by state or
local government agencies.
DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS
SEC. 602. (a) Not later than December 31 of each
year, a grantee, except an individual person, shall provide
(via either electronic or paper medium) to each Federal
entity that awarded or administered its grant an annual
report for the prior Federal fiscal year, certified by the
grantee’s chief executive officer or equivalent person of au-
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thority, and setting forth: the grantee’s name, the grant-
ee’s identification number, and—
(1) a statement that the grantee did not engage
in political advocacy; or
(2) a statement that the grantee did engage in
political advocacy, and setting forth for each grant—
(A) the grant identification number;
(B) the amount or value of the grant (in-
cluding all administrative and overhead costs
awarded);
(C) a brief description of the purpose or
purposes for which the grant was awarded;
(D) the identity of each Federal, state and
local government entity awarding or administer-
ing the grant, and program thereunder;
(E) the name and grantee identification
number of each individual, entity, or organiza-
tion to whom the grantee made a grant;
(F) a brief description of the grantee’s po-
litical advocacy, and a good faith estimate of
the grantee’s expenditures on political advocacy;
(G) a good faith estimate of the grantee’s
prohibited political advocacy threshold.
(b) OMB COORDINATION.—The Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall develop by regulation one stand-
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ardized form for the annual report that shall be accepted
by every Federal entity, and a uniform procedure by which
each grantee is assigned one permanent and unique grant-
ee identification number.
FEDERAL ENTITY REPORT
SEC. 603. Not later than May 1 of each calendar
year, each Federal entity awarding or administering a
grant shall submit to the Bureau of the Census a report
(standardized by the Office of Management and Budget)
setting forth the information provided to such Federal en-
tity by each grantee during the preceding Federal fiscal
year, and the name and grantee identification number of
each grantee to whom it provided written notice under sec-
tion 1(a)(6). The Bureau of the Census shall make this
database available to the public through the Internet.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
SEC. 604. (a) Any Federal entity awarding a grant
shall make publicly available any grant application, audit
of a grantee, list of grantees to whom notice was provided
under section 1(a)(6), annual report of a grantee, and that
Federal entity’s annual report to the Bureau of the Cen-
sus.
(b) The public’s access to the documents identified
in section 4(a) shall be facilitated by placement of such
documents in the Federal entity’s public document reading
room and also by expediting any requests under section
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552 of title 5, United States Code, the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act as amended, ahead of any requests for other
information pending at such Federal entity.
(c) Records described in section (a) shall not be sub-
ject to withholding except under exemption (b)(7)(A) of
section 552 of title 5, United States Code.
(d) No fees for searching for or copying such docu-
ments shall be charged to the public.
SEVERABILITY
SEC. 605. If any provision of this title or the applica-
tion thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid,
the remainder of this title and the application of such pro-
vision to other persons and circumstances shall not be af-
fected thereby.
FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS PRESERVED
SEC. 606. Nothing in this title shall be deemed to
abridge any rights guaranteed under the first amendment
of the United States Constitution, including freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
TITLE VII—DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX
SEC. 701. SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as
the ‘‘Deficit Reduction Lock-box Act of 1995’’.
SEC. 702. DEFICIT REDUCTION LOCK-BOX AC-
COUNT.—(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—Title III of
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thority and in outlays resulting from amendments
agreed to by that House to that bill.
‘‘(2) The Director shall, upon the engrossment
of Senate amendments to any appropriation bill,
credit to the applicable Joint House-Senate Lock-
box Balance the amounts of new budget authority
and outlays equal to—
‘‘(A) an amount equal to one-half of the
sum of (i) the amount of new budget authority
in the House Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the
amount of new budget authority in the Senate
Lock-box Balance for that bill; and
‘‘(B) an amount equal to one-half of the
sum of (i) the amount of outlays in the House
Lock-box Balance plus (ii) the amount of out-
lays in the Senate Lock-box Balance for that
bill, under section 314(c), as calculated by the
Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
‘‘(d) CALCULATION OF LOCK-BOX SAVINGS IN
SENATE.—For purposes of calculating under this
section the net amounts of reductions in new budget
authority and in outlays resulting from amendments
agreed to by the Senate on an appropriation bill, the
amendments reported to the Senate by its Commit-
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tee on Appropriations shall be considered to be part
of the original text of the bill.
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the
term ‘appropriation bill’ means any general or spe-
cial appropriation bill, and any bill or joint resolu-
tion making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing
appropriations through the end of a fiscal year.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 313 the following
new item:
‘‘Sec. 314. Deficit reduction lock-box account.’’
SEC.
703.
TALLY
DURING
HOUSE
CONSIDER-
ATION.—There shall be available to Members in the House
of Representatives during consideration of any appropria-
tions bill by the House a running tally of the amendments
adopted reflecting increases and decreases of budget au-
thority in the bill as reported.
Sec. 704. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT OF 602(A) ALLO-
CATIONS AND SECTION 602(B) SUBALLOCATIONS.—(a) AL-
LOCATIONS.—Section 602(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
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‘‘(5) Upon the engrossment of Senate amend-
ments to any appropriation bill (as defined in section
314(d)) for a fiscal year, the amounts allocated
under paragraph (1) or (2) to the Committee on Ap-
propriations of each House upon the adoption of the
most recent concurrent resolution on the budget for
that fiscal year shall be adjusted downward by the
amounts credited to the applicable Joint House-Sen-
ate Lock-box Balance under section 314(c)(2), as
calculated by the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office, and the revised levels of budget au-
thority and outlays shall be submitted to each House
by the chairman of the Committee on the Budget of
that House and shall be printed in the Congressional
Record.’’.
(b) SUBALLOCATIONS.—Section 602(b)(1) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding
at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Whenever an ad-
justment is made under subsection (a)(5) to an allocation
under that subsection, the Director of the Congressional
Budget Office shall make downward adjustments in the
most recent suballocations of new budget authority and
outlays under subparagraph (A) to the appropriate sub-
committees of that committee in the total amounts of
those adjustments under section 314(c)(2). The revised
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suballocations shall be submitted to each House by the
chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of that
House and shall be printed in the Congressional Record.’’.
SEC.
705.
PERIODIC
REPORTING
OF
ACCOUNT
STATEMENTS.—Section 308(b)(1) of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence: ‘‘Such reports shall also include
an up-to-date tabulation of the amounts contained in the
account and each subaccount established by section
314(a).’’.
SEC. 706. DOWNWARD ADJUSTMENT
OF DISCRE-
TIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—The discretionary spending
limit for new budget authority for any fiscal year set forth
in section 601(a)(2) of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as adjusted in strict conformance with section 251
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, shall be reduced by the amount of the adjust-
ment to the section 602(a) allocations made under section
602(a)(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
calculated by the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget. The adjusted discretionary spending limit for
outlays for that fiscal year, as set forth in such section
601(a)(2), shall be reduced as a result of the reduction
of such budget authority, as calculated by the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget based upon pro-
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grammatic and other assumptions set forth in the joint
explanatory statement of managers accompanying the con-
ference report on that bill. Reductions (if any) shall occur
upon the enactment of all regular appropriation bills for
a fiscal year or a resolution making continuing appropria-
tions through the end of that fiscal year. This adjustment
shall be reflected in reports under sections 254(g) and
254(h) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985.
SEC. 707. EFFECTIVE DATE.—(a) IN GENERAL.—
This title shall apply to all appropriation bills making ap-
propriations for fiscal year 1996 or any subsequent fiscal
year.
(b) FY96 APPLICATION.—In the case of any appro-
priation bill for fiscal year 1996 engrossed by the House
of Representatives on or after the date this bill was en-
grossed by the House of Representatives and before the
date of enactment of this bill, the Director of the Congres-
sional Budget Office, the Director of the Office of Man-
agement and Budget, and the Committees on Appropria-
tions and the Committees on the Budget of the House of
Representatives and of the Senate shall, within 10 cal-
endar days after that date of enactment of this Act, carry
out the duties required by this title and amendments made
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by it that occur after the date this Act was engrossed by
the House of Representatives.
(c) FY96 ALLOCATIONS.—The duties of the Director
of the Congressional Budget Office and of the Committees
on Budget and on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives pursuant to this title and the amendments
made by it regarding appropriation bills for fiscal year
1996 shall be based upon the revised section 602(a) alloca-
tions in effect on the date this Act was engrossed by the
House of Representatives.
(d) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term
‘‘appropriation bill’’ means any general or special appro-
priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup-
plemental,
deficiency,
or
continuing
appropriations
through the end of a fiscal year.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
Passed the House of Representatives August 4 (leg-
islative day, August 3), 1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
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