Title: To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans-affairs discretionary spending for each of the fiscal years 2017 and 2018.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
This bill makes 5% across-the-board rescissions in discretionary spending for FY2017 and FY2018, excluding spending for defense, homeland security, and veterans affairs. It also requires the Office of Management and Budget to submit a report to Congress specifying the account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 87 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 H. R. 87

  To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-
homeland-security, and non-veterans-affairs discretionary spending for 
                each of the fiscal years 2017 and 2018.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2017

Mrs. Blackburn introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To make 5 percent across-the-board rescissions in non-defense, non-
homeland-security, and non-veterans-affairs discretionary spending for 
                each of the fiscal years 2017 and 2018.

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

SECTION 1. ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSIONS IN NON-DEFENSE, NON-HOMELAND-
              SECURITY, AND NON-VETERANS-AFFAIRS DISCRETIONARY SPENDING 
              FOR EACH OF FISCAL YEARS 2017 AND 2018.

    (a) Across-the-Board Rescissions.--There is hereby rescinded an 
amount equal to 5 percent of--
            (1) the budget authority provided (or obligation limitation 
        imposed) in each of the fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for any non-
        defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans-affairs 
        discretionary account in any fiscal year 2017 or 2018 
        appropriation Act;
            (2) the budget authority provided in any advance 
        appropriation for each of the fiscal years 2017 and 2018 for 
        any non-defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans-
        affairs discretionary account in any prior fiscal year 
        appropriation Act; and
            (3) the contract authority provided in each of the fiscal 
        years 2017 and 2018 for any program that is subject to a 
        limitation contained in any fiscal year 2017 or 2018 
        appropriation Act for any non-defense, non-homeland-security, 
        and non-veterans-affairs discretionary account.
    (b) Non-Defense, Non-Homeland-Security, and Non-Veterans-Affairs 
Discretionary Account.--For purposes of subsection (a), the term ``non-
defense, non-homeland-security, and non-veterans-affairs discretionary 
account'' means any discretionary account, other than--
            (1) any account included in a Department of Defense 
        Appropriations Act;
            (2) any account included in a Department of Homeland 
        Security Appropriations Act;
            (3) any account of the Department of Defense or the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs included in a Military 
        Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies 
        Appropriations Act; or
            (4) any account for Department of Energy defense activities 
        included in an Energy and Water Development and Related 
        Agencies Appropriations Act.
    (c) Proportionate Application.--Any rescission made by subsection 
(a) shall be applied proportionately--
            (1) to each discretionary account and each item of budget 
        authority described in such subsection; and
            (2) within each such account and item, to each program, 
        project, and activity (with programs, projects, and activities 
        as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying reports 
        for the relevant fiscal year covering such account or item, or 
        for accounts and items not included in appropriation Acts, as 
        delineated in the most recently submitted President's budget).
    (d) Subsequent Appropriation Laws.--In the case of any fiscal year 
2017 or 2018 appropriation Act enacted after the date of enactment of 
this section, any rescission required by subsection (a) shall take 
effect immediately after the enactment of such Act.
    (e) OMB Report.--Within 30 days after the date of enactment of this 
section (or, if later, 30 days after the enactment of any fiscal year 
2017 or 2018 appropriation Act), the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report specifying the 
account and amount of each rescission made pursuant to subsection (a).
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