Children's Budget Act
Bill: S.2127 | Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert (D-NJ)
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Children's Budget Act
This bill requires the President's annual budget submission to include a detailed and separate analysis of existing and requested levels of (1) spending for children and children's programs, and (2) tax expenditures relating to children.

To amend title 31, United States Code, to require that Federal 
    children's programs be separately displayed and analyzed in the 
              President's budget, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Children's Budget Act''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO TITLE 31.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(40)(A) A detailed, separate analysis for the prior 
        fiscal year, the current fiscal year, the fiscal year for which 
        the budget is submitted, and the ensuing fiscal year 
        identifying--
                    ``(i) the amounts of gross and net appropriations 
                or obligational authority and outlays that are directed 
                to children within the United States and territories 
                including--
                            ``(I) summaries of the total amount of such 
                        appropriations or new obligational authority 
                        and outlays requested for children and 
                        children's programs;
                            ``(II) an estimate of levels of spending on 
                        children and children's programs; and
                            ``(III) a detailed breakdown of spending on 
                        children and children's programs by agency and 
                        initiative; and
                    ``(ii) the amount of tax expenditures relating to 
                children.
            ``(B) In this paragraph--
                    ``(i) the term `children' means individuals under 
                19 years of age;
                    ``(ii) the term `spending on children' includes--
                            ``(I) Federal entitlement spending that 
                        goes directly to children;
                            ``(II) outlays for programs and initiatives 
                        that, consistent with their mission, deliver 
                        services exclusively to children;
                            ``(III) outlays for programs and 
                        initiatives that, while not serving children 
                        directly, have as a core mission goal the 
                        improvement of children's health, education, 
                        welfare, or general well-being; and
                            ``(IV) the share of funding for Federal 
                        programs and initiatives that deliver services 
                        to both children and adults that is consistent 
                        with the share of program benefits for children 
                        based on the best available data; and
                    ``(iii) the term `tax expenditures' has the meaning 
                given that term in section 3 of the Congressional 
                Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
                622).
            ``(C) In implementing this paragraph, including determining 
        what Federal activities or accounts constitutes spending on 
        children or children's programs and tax expenditures relating 
        to children, the Office of Management and Budget shall consult 
        periodically with the Committee on the Budget and the Committee 
        on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on the Budget 
        and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
        Representatives, and the Congressional Budget Office.''.
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