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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 796 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that the receipts 
and disbursements of the Social Security trust funds are not included 
in a unified Federal budget and to provide that Social Security contribu-
tions are used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating that 
Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create private accounts. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 18, 2011 
Mr. DEFAZIO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on the 
Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to ensure that 
the receipts and disbursements of the Social Security 
trust funds are not included in a unified Federal budget 
and to provide that Social Security contributions are 
used to protect Social Security solvency by mandating 
that Trust Fund monies cannot be diverted to create 
private accounts. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Social Security Protec-
tion and Truth in Budgeting Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. EXCLUSION OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST 
FUNDS FROM THE UNIFIED FEDERAL BUDG-
ET. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 201 of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 401) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(o)(1) The receipts and disbursements of the Fed-
eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the 
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund (including taxes 
upon which any such receipts are based)— 
‘‘(A) shall not be included in the Federal budg-
et baseline for any fiscal year, and 
‘‘(B) shall not be counted as new budget au-
thority, outlays, receipts, or deficit or surplus for 
purposes of— 
‘‘(i) offsetting any tax decrease, or 
‘‘(ii) offsetting any spending increase. 
‘‘(2) Any official statement issued by the Office of 
Management and Budget or by the Congressional Budget 
Office of surplus or deficit totals of the budget of the 
United States Government as submitted by the President 
or of the surplus or deficit totals of the congressional 
budget, and any description of, or reference to, such totals 
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in any official publication or material issued by either of 
such Offices, shall exclude the receipts and disbursements 
totals of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Fund (including taxes upon which any such receipts are 
based).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to fiscal years beginning on or 
after October 1, 2011. 
SEC. 3. PROTECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY. 
Those amounts, equal to taxes imposed under sec-
tions 1401 and 3101 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 and taxes imposed under chapter 1 of such Code 
to the extent attributable to section 86 of such Code, 
which are made available to the Federal Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund under the applicable provisions of 
law as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
shall be available solely for the purposes of the old-age, 
survivors, and disability insurance program under title II 
of the Social Security Act, as in effect on such date, and 
shall not be available for the establishment or funding of 
private accounts. 
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