Title: Providing for budget allocations for the Committee on Appropriations, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
This resolution establishes certain budget enforcement procedures and allocations for FY2022 appropriations legislation.
Specifically, the resolution establishes FY2022 budget allocations for the House Appropriations Committee. In addition, the resolution allows the chair of the House Budget Committee to make specified adjustments to the allocations to accommodate additional spending for
The resolution also includes provisions that address emergency spending and advance appropriations.
The provisions in this resolution expire when a congressional budget resolution for FY2022 is passed by both chambers of Congress.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 467 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 467

 Providing for budget allocations for the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2021

 Mr. Yarmuth submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 
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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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Providing for budget allocations for the Committee on Appropriations, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. BUDGET MATTERS.

    (a) Fiscal Year 2022.--For the purpose of enforcing the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for fiscal year 2022, this resolution 
shall apply in the House of Representatives in the same manner as for a 
concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.
    (b) Budget Allocations.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget 
shall submit a statement for publication in the Congressional Record as 
soon as practicable containing committee allocations for the Committee 
on Appropriations for fiscal year 2022 for new discretionary budget 
authority of $1,506,027,000,000, and the outlays flowing therefrom, and 
for current law mandatory budget authority and outlays, for the purpose 
of enforcing section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    (c) Additional Matter.--The statement referred to in subsection (b) 
may also include for fiscal year 2022 the matter contained in the 
provisions referred to in section 2(a).
    (d) Adjustments.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget may 
adjust the allocations included in the statement referred to in 
subsection (b) to reflect changes resulting from the Congressional 
Budget Office's updates to its baseline.
    (e) Applicability of Section 251 Adjustments to Discretionary 
Spending Limits.--Except as expressly provided otherwise, the 
adjustments provided by section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall not apply to allocations 
established pursuant to this resolution.
    (f) Emergency Requirements.--(1) If a bill, joint resolution, 
amendment, or conference report making appropriations for discretionary 
amounts contains a provision providing new budget authority and outlays 
or reducing revenue, and a designation of such provision as an 
emergency requirement, the chair of the Committee on the Budget shall 
not count the budgetary effects of such provision for any purpose in 
the House.
    (2)(A) A proposal to strike a designation under paragraph (1) shall 
be excluded from an evaluation of budgetary effects for any purpose in 
the House.
    (B) An amendment offered under subparagraph (A) that also proposes 
to reduce each amount appropriated or otherwise made available by the 
pending measure that is not required to be appropriated or otherwise 
made available shall be in order at any point in the reading of the 
pending measure.
    (g) Adjustment for Disaster Relief.--The chair of the Committee on 
the Budget may adjust the allocations included in the statement 
referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
            (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
        conference report makes discretionary appropriations that 
        Congress designates as being for disaster relief, the 
        adjustment for fiscal year 2022 shall be the total of such 
        appropriations for fiscal year 2022 designated as being for 
        disaster relief, but not to exceed the amount equal to the 
        total amount calculated for fiscal year 2022 in accordance with 
        the formula in section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
        and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 except that such 
        formula shall be applied by substituting ``fiscal years 2012 
        through 2022'' for ``fiscal years 2012 through 2021''.
            (2) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
        ``disaster relief'' means activities carried out pursuant to a 
        determination under section 102(2) of the Robert T. Stafford 
        Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
        5122(2)).
    (h) Adjustment for Wildfire Suppression.--The chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations included in the 
statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
            (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
        conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
        fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for wildfire suppression 
        operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at the 
        Department of Agriculture or the Department of the Interior, 
        then the adjustment shall be the amount of additional new 
        budget authority specified in such measure as being for 
        wildfire suppression operations for fiscal year 2022, but shall 
        not exceed $2,450,000,000.
            (2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection, the terms 
        ``additional new budget authority'' and ``wildfire suppression 
        operations'' have the meanings specified in subclauses (I) and 
        (II), respectively, of section 251(b)(2)(F)(ii) of the Balanced 
        Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
        901(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) and (II)).
    (i) Adjustment for Internal Revenue Service Tax Enforcement.--The 
chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations 
included in the statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
            (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
        conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
        fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for tax enforcement 
        activities, including tax compliance to address the Federal tax 
        gap, in the Enforcement account and the Operations Support 
        account of the Internal Revenue Service of the Department of 
        the Treasury, then the adjustment shall be the additional new 
        budget authority provided in such measure for such purpose, but 
        shall not exceed $417,000,000.
            (2) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
        ``additional new budget authority'' means the amount provided 
        for fiscal year 2022, in excess of $9,141,000,000, in a bill, 
        joint resolution, amendment, or conference report and specified 
        for tax enforcement activities, including tax compliance to 
        address the Federal tax gap, of the Internal Revenue Service.
    (j) Adjustment for Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control.--The chair 
of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations included in 
the statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
            (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
        conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
        fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for the health care fraud 
        abuse control program at the Department of Health and Human 
        Services (75-8393-0-7-571), then the adjustment shall be the 
        amount of additional new budget authority specified in such 
        measure for such program for fiscal year 2022, but shall not 
        exceed $556,000,000.
            (2) Definition.--As used in this subsection, the term 
        ``additional new budget authority'' means the amount provided 
        for fiscal year 2022, in excess of $317,000,000, in a bill, 
        joint resolution, amendment, or conference report making 
        discretionary appropriations and specified to pay for the costs 
        of the health care fraud and abuse control program.
    (k) Adjustment for Continuing Disability Reviews and 
Redeterminations.--The chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust 
the allocations included in the statement referred to in subsection (b) 
as follows:
            (1) In general.--If a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or 
        conference report making discretionary appropriations for 
        fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for continuing disability 
        reviews under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (42 
        U.S.C. 401 et seq., 1381 et seq.), for the cost associated with 
        conducting redeterminations of eligibility under title XVI of 
        the Social Security Act, for the cost of co-operative 
        disability investigation units, and for the cost associated 
        with the prosecution of fraud in the programs and operations of 
        the Social Security Administration by Special Assistant United 
        States Attorneys, then the adjustment shall be the additional 
        new budget authority specified in such measure for such 
        expenses for fiscal year 2022, but shall not exceed 
        $1,435,000,000.
            (2) Definitions.--As used in this subsection--
                    (A) the term ``continuing disability reviews'' 
                means continuing disability reviews under sections 
                221(i) and 1614(a)(4) of the Social Security Act, 
                including work-related continuing disability reviews to 
                determine whether earnings derived from services 
                demonstrate an individual's ability to engage in 
                substantial gainful activity;
                    (B) the term ``redetermination'' means 
                redetermination of eligibility under sections 
                1611(c)(1) and 1614(a)(3)(H) of the Social Security Act 
                (42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(1), 1382c(a)(3)(H)); and
                    (C) the term ``additional new budget authority'' 
                means the amount provided for fiscal year 2022, in 
                excess of $273,000,000, in a bill, joint resolution, 
                amendment, or conference report and specified to pay 
                for the costs of continuing disability reviews, 
                redeterminations, co-operative disability investigation 
                units, and fraud prosecutions under the heading 
                ``Limitation on Administrative Expenses'' for the 
                Social Security Administration.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION.

    (a) Allocations.--Upon submission of the statement referred to in 
section 1(b), all references to allocations in ``this concurrent 
resolution'' in sections 4002, 4003, and 4004 of the Senate Concurrent 
Resolution 5 (117th Congress) shall be treated for all purposes in the 
House of Representatives as references to the allocations contained in 
the statement referred to in section 1(b), as adjusted in accordance 
with this resolution or any Act.
    (b) Discretionary Appropriation Adjustments.--The chair of the 
Committee on the Budget may make appropriate budgetary adjustments of 
new budget authority and the outlays flowing therefrom pursuant to the 
adjustment authorities provided by section 1.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any general 
appropriation bill or bill or joint resolution continuing 
appropriations, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, may 
not provide an advance appropriation.
    (b) Exceptions.--An advance appropriation may be provided for 
programs, activities, or accounts identified in lists submitted for 
printing in the Congressional Record by the chair of the Committee on 
the Budget--
            (1) for fiscal year 2023, under the heading ``Accounts 
        Identified for Advance Appropriations'' in an aggregate amount 
        not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new budget authority, and for 
        fiscal year 2024, accounts separately identified under the same 
        heading; and
            (2) for fiscal year 2023, under the heading ``Veterans 
        Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations''.
    (c) Definition.--The term ``advance appropriation'' means any new 
discretionary budget authority provided in a general appropriation bill 
or bill or joint resolution continuing appropriations for fiscal year 
2022, or any amendment thereto or conference report thereon, that first 
becomes available following fiscal year 2022.

SEC. 4. EXPIRATION.

    The provisions of this resolution shall expire upon the adoption of 
a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022 by the House 
of Representatives and the Senate.
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