Title: Children's Budget Act
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 spending for children and children's programs.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1776 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1776

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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 11, 2019

 Mr. Menendez (for himself, Ms. Harris, and Mr. Casey) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


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

    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 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.
            ``(B) In this paragraph--
                    ``(i) the term `children' means individuals under 
                19 years of age; and
                    ``(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.
            ``(C) In implementing this paragraph, including determining 
        what Federal activities or accounts constitutes spending on 
        children or children's programs, 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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