Title: Indian Programs Advance Appropriations Act
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
Indian Programs Advance Appropriations Act
This bill authorizes advance appropriations for several covered appropriations accounts of (1) the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education within the Department of the Interior, and (2) the Indian Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services. The advance appropriations provide new budget authority that first becomes available for the first fiscal year after the budget year.
The covered accounts within the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education include (1) Operation of Indian Programs, (2) Contract Support Costs, and (3) the Indian Guaranteed Loan Program Account.
The covered accounts within the Indian Health Service include (1) Indian Health Services, and (2) Contract Support Costs.
The bill also requires the President's budget and the supporting documents submitted to Congress to include detailed estimates related to the advance appropriations.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 229 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 229

To provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the 
    Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education of the 
    Department of the Interior and the Indian Health Service of the 
    Department of Health and Human Services, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             January 25 (legislative day, January 24), 2019

 Mr. Udall (for himself, Mr. Tester, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Smith, Mr. 
 Heinrich, Ms. Warren, and Mr. Schatz) introduced the following bill; 
    which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide advance appropriations authority for certain accounts of the 
    Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education of the 
    Department of the Interior and the Indian Health Service of the 
    Department of Health and Human Services, 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 ``Indian Programs Advance 
Appropriations Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--For each fiscal year, beginning with fiscal year 
2020, new budget authority provided in an appropriations Act for the 
covered accounts shall--
            (1) be made available for that fiscal year; and
            (2) include, for each such account, advance new budget 
        authority that first becomes available for the first fiscal 
        year after the budget year.
    (b) Estimates Required.--Each applicable Secretary shall include in 
documents submitted to Congress in support of the President's budget 
submitted pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, 
detailed estimates of the funds necessary for the covered accounts of 
the Department of the Interior or the Department of Health and Human 
Services, as applicable, for the fiscal year following the fiscal year 
for which the budget is submitted.
    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Applicable secretary.--The term ``applicable 
        Secretary'' means--
                    (A) with respect to actions involving the covered 
                accounts described in paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary 
                of the Interior; and
                    (B) with respect to actions involving the covered 
                accounts described in paragraph (2)(B), the Secretary 
                of Health and Human Services.
            (2) Covered accounts.--The term ``covered accounts'' means 
        the following:
                    (A) The following accounts of the Department of the 
                Interior that provide annual appropriations for the 
                Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs 
                and Bureau of Indian Education account:
                            (i) Operation of Indian Programs.
                            (ii) Contract Support Costs.
                            (iii) Indian Guaranteed Loan Program 
                        Account.
                    (B) The following accounts of the Department of 
                Health and Human Services that provide annual 
                appropriations for the Indian Health Service account:
                            (i) Indian Health Services.
                            (ii) Contract Support Costs.

SEC. 3. INFORMATION ON APPROPRIATIONS ESTIMATES.

    Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
            ``(40) information on estimates of appropriations for the 
        fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is 
        submitted for the covered accounts described in section 2(c)(2) 
        of the Indian Programs Advance Appropriations Act.''.
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