IIB 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 444 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
FEBRUARY 7, 2013 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget 
AN ACT 
To require that, if the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget 
does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by 
such budget, the President shall submit a supplemental 
unified budget by April 1, 2013, which identifies a fiscal 
year in which balance is achieved, and for other pur-
poses. 
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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 ‘‘Require Presidential 
Leadership and No Deficit Act’’ or the ‘‘Require a PLAN 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE AND FINDINGS. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to require 
the President to submit to Congress a supplemental uni-
fied budget if the President’s budget for fiscal year 2014 
does not achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such 
budget. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) With this year’s expected failure to meet the 
statutory deadline for submission of his budget, as 
stated by the Office of Management and Budget, the 
President will have only met the statutory deadline 
in one of his five budget submissions. 
(2) Despite a promise to cut the deficit in half, 
the deficit doubled during the President’s first year 
in office and has exceeded $1 trillion for four years 
now. 
(3) Since taking office, the President has al-
lowed the Federal debt to grow by nearly $6 trillion 
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and total debt now exceeds the size of the entire 
economy of the United States. 
(4) Under the President’s most recent budget 
submission, the budget never achieves balance. 
(5) The President’s fiscal year 2013 budget 
submission includes the admission that under his 
own policies the Federal Government’s ‘‘fiscal posi-
tion gradually deteriorates’’. 
SEC. 3. SUBMISSION OF A SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFIED BUDG-
ET. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—If the President’s budget for fis-
cal year 2014, submitted to Congress pursuant to section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, results in a pro-
jected deficit in every fiscal year for which estimates are 
provided in such budget, then the President shall submit 
a supplemental unified budget pursuant to subsection (b). 
(b) CONTENTS OF SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFIED BUDG-
ET.—Not later than April 1, 2013, the President shall 
submit to Congress a supplemental unified budget that in-
cludes— 
(1) the information required under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code; 
(2) an estimate of the earliest fiscal year in 
which the supplemental budget is not projected to 
result in a deficit; 
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(C) a description of programs which shall 
be considered means-tested direct spending and 
nonmeans-tested direct spending for purposes 
of this paragraph; and 
(D) an annual estimate of the total 
amount of outlays for each such program for 
the period covered by the budget proposal. 
(c) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘unified budget’’ means 
the total level of outlays, total level of receipts, and the 
resulting deficit or surplus of the United States Govern-
ment for a fiscal year. 
Passed the House of Representatives February 6, 
2013. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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