Title: End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility Act
This bill prohibits an executive agency from spending more in each of the last 2 months of a fiscal year than the agency's average monthly spending for the previous 10 months. The bill applies to obligations of discretionary appropriations and includes exceptions for spending that is (1) for national security-related activities, or (2) designated by Congress as emergency spending.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4559 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4559

 To provide requirements for Executive agency spending at the end of a 
                  fiscal year, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2019

 Mr. Crenshaw introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide requirements for Executive agency spending at the end of a 
                  fiscal year, 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 ``End-of-Year Fiscal Responsibility 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Covered period.--The term ``covered period'' means the 
        2-month period immediately preceding the end of a fiscal year.
            (2) Discretionary appropriations.--The term ``discretionary 
        appropriations'' has the meaning given the term in section 
        250(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
        of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900(c)).
            (3) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given the term in section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENTS FOR EXECUTIVE AGENCY SPENDING AT THE END OF A 
              FISCAL YEAR.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (c), the amount 
of discretionary appropriations obligated by an Executive agency during 
each month of a covered period may not exceed the average monthly 
amount of discretionary appropriations obligated by the Executive 
agency during the 10-month period immediately preceding the covered 
period.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal 
year, each Executive agency shall submit to Congress and post on a 
publicly available website an itemized list of discretionary 
appropriations obligated by the Executive agency during the covered 
period immediately preceding the date on which the report is submitted.
    (c) Exception.--This section shall not apply with respect to any 
discretionary appropriations obligated by an Executive agency for 
national security-related activities or designated by Congress as 
emergency spending.
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