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Calendar No. 471 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5872 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 19, 2012 
Received; read the first time 
JULY 23, 2012 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
To require the President to provide a report detailing the 
sequester required by the Budget Control Act of 2011 
on January 2, 2013. 
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 ‘‘Sequestration Trans-
parency Act of 2012’’. 
SEC. 2. SEQUESTER PREVIEW. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the President shall submit 
to Congress a detailed report on the sequestration re-
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quired to be ordered by paragraphs (7)(A) and (8) of sec-
tion 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a) for fiscal year 2013 
on January 2, 2013. 
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report required by 
subsection (a) shall include— 
(1) for discretionary appropriations— 
(A) an estimate for each category of the 
sequestration percentages and amounts nec-
essary to achieve the required reduction; and 
(B)(i) for accounts that are funded pursu-
ant to an enacted regular appropriation bill for 
fiscal year 2013, an identification of each ac-
count to be sequestered and estimates of the 
level of sequestrable budgetary resources and 
resulting reductions at the program, project, 
and activity level based upon the enacted level 
of appropriations; and 
(ii) for accounts that have not been funded 
pursuant to an enacted regular appropriation 
bill for fiscal year 2013, an identification of 
each account to be sequestered and estimates 
pursuant to a continuing resolution at a rate of 
operations as provided in the applicable appro-
priation Act for fiscal year 2012 of the level of 
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sequestrable budgetary resources and resulting 
reductions at the program, project, and activity 
level; 
(2) for direct spending— 
(A) an estimate for the defense and non-
defense functions based on current law of the 
sequestration percentages and amount nec-
essary to achieve the required reduction; and 
(B) an identification of the reductions re-
quired for each nonexempt direct spending ac-
count at the program, project, and activity 
level; 
(3) an identification of all exempt discretionary 
accounts and of all exempt direct spending accounts; 
and 
(4) any other data and explanations that en-
hance public understanding of the sequester and ac-
tions to be taken under it. 
(c) AGENCY ASSISTANCE.—(1) Upon the request of 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (in 
assisting the President in the preparation of the report 
under subsection (a)), the head of each agency, after con-
sultation with the chairs and ranking members of the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate, shall promptly provide to the Direc-
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tor information at the program, project, and activity level 
necessary for the Director to prepare the report under 
subsection (a). 
(2) As used in this subsection, the term ‘‘agency’’ 
means any executive agency as defined in section 105 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 18, 2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 471 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5872 
AN ACT 
To require the President to provide a report detail-
ing the sequester required by the Budget Control 
Act of 2011 on January 2, 2013. 
JULY 23, 2012 
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
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