Title: Pulled Pork Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Pulled Pork Act
This bill prohibits federal agencies from using funds made available through an earmark after the enactment of this bill. It also rescinds the earmarked funds effective on the date the funds are made available.
An "earmark" is a provision or report language included primarily at the request of a Member of Congress providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an entity, or targeted to a specific state, locality or congressional district, other than through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.
Each agency must submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) an annual report identifying each earmark that is ineligible for funding under this bill. OMB must then submit to Congress and publish on its website an annual report detailing the identified earmarks and the annual savings resulting from this bill.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4818 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4818

 To prohibit the use of Federal funds made available in the form of an 
                    earmark, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2018

 Ms. Rosen (for herself and Mr. Jones) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 
and in addition to the Committee on Appropriations, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the use of Federal funds made available in the form of an 
                    earmark, 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 ``Pulled Pork Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EARMARKS.

    (a) In General.--No funds made available after the date of 
enactment of this Act to any Executive agency through an earmark may be 
obligated or expended by that agency, and any such funds are rescinded 
effective on the date the funds are so made available.
    (b) Executive Agency Identification of Earmarks and Report.--
            (1) Agency identification.--The head of each Executive 
        agency shall submit to the Director of the Office of Management 
        and Budget an annual report that identifies each earmark for a 
        project of the agency that is ineligible for funding under 
        subsection (a).
            (2) Annual report.--The Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget shall submit to Congress, and publish on 
        the Office's public website, an annual report on earmarks that 
        includes--
                    (A) a listing and accounting for earmarks 
                identified under paragraph (1); and
                    (B) the annual savings resulting from this section 
                for the previous fiscal year.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has the meaning 
        given that term in section 105 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Earmark.--The term ``earmark'' means a provision or 
        report language included primarily at the request of a Member 
        of Congress providing, authorizing, or recommending a specific 
        amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or 
        other spending authority for a contract, loan, loan guarantee, 
        grant, loan authority, or other expenditure with or to an 
        entity, or targeted to a specific State, locality or 
        congressional district, other than through a statutory or 
        administrative formula-driven or competitive award process.
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