Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009

Bill: 111-hr-2920
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2009-06-17 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Budget deficits and national debt
Budget process
Disaster relief and insurance
Employee benefits and pensions
Financial crises and stabilization
Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
Government information and archives
Income tax credits
Income tax rates
Interest, dividends, interest rates
Legislative rules and procedure
Medicare
Poverty and welfare assistance
Railroads
Social security and elderly assistance
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Transfer and inheritance taxes
Transportation employees
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' pensions and compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009 - Requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), as soon as practicable after Congress completes action on any Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) legislation, to provide an estimate of its budgetary effects to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
 
Requires OMB to maintain and make publicly available a document containing a PAYGO ledger and, within seven days (excluding weekends and legal holidays) after the enactment of any PAYGO legislation, record on such ledger its estimate of the legislation's budgetary effects in each fiscal year, applying the look-back and averaging requirements of this Act.
 
Exempts from the requirements of this Act any PAYGO legislation designated as an emergency requirement by the President and enacted by Congress. (Requires OMB to display the budgetary effects of such legislation as an addendum in the document containing the PAYGO ledger but not record the budgetary effects in it.)
 
Requires OMB: (1) to make publicly available an annual PAYGO report and publish a notice of it in the Federal Register, including information on how it can be obtained; and (2) if such report shows a debit on the PAYGO ledger for the budget year, to prepare and the President to issue a sequestration order for submission to Congress.
 
Prescribes requirements for calculating a sequestration for certain nonexempt and Medicare mandatory programs.
 
Sets forth a special temporary rule to address the scoring of legislation affecting current policy for: (1) payments made under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for physician services; (2) the Estate and Gift Tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) under the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 or the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003 that amended the Code extending middle-class tax cuts for individuals (or provisions in later statutes further amending such amendments).
 

 
Makes such rule effective through December 31, 2010, or, in specified circumstances, until December 31, 2011.
 
Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to modify the assumptions used to calculate the baseline.
 
Requires: (1) temporary mandatory funding and tax provisions related to major natural or man-made disasters to be assumed to expire on schedule, and discretionary funding for them to not be projected; and (2) the baseline to include a disaster allowance that is not designated as mandatory or discretionary and is not allocated to any congressional committee.
 
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to specify additional Social Security, veterans, Tier I Railroad Retirement benefits and other programs and activities exempt from a sequestration order as well as certain economic recovery programs.

action_date: 2009-07-22
text: 
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2009 - (Sec. 4) Requires a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act to include by reference an estimate of its budgetary effects as determined by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (CBA), if timely submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by the chairs of the congressional budget committees (chairs) before the vote on it.
 
Requires: (1) the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Secretary of the Senate, as applicable, also to incorporate by reference such printed estimate into the enrollment of a PAYGO Act; and (2) budgetary effects that are not so included to be determined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimates.
 
Amends the CBA to require the chairs to request from the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) an estimate of the budgetary effects of a PAYGO Act before a vote in either chamber on it that, if determined in the affirmative, would clear it for enrollment.
 
Directs the chairs to post such estimate on their respective committee websites and cause it to be printed in the Congressional Record under &quot;PAYGO ESTIMATE.&quot;
 
Requires CBO to make specified estimate adjustments when calculating budgetary effects of certain designated legislation affecting current policy, as detailed in Sec. 7 of this Act.
 
Requires OMB to maintain and make publicly available a continuously updated document containing two PAYGO scorecards (the first for a five-year period and the second for a 10-year period for the beginning of each respective budget year) displaying the budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation, applying certain look-back and averaging requirements. Requires OMB to display as a separate addendum the cost estimates of provisions designated in statute as emergency requirements.
 
(Sec. 5) Requires OMB to: (1) make an annual public PAYGO report, including a up-to-date document containing the PAYGO scorecards, within 14 business days after Congress adjourns to end a session; and (2) prepare for the President an offsetting sequestration order, which the President shall issue, if such report shows a debit on either PAYGO scorecard for the budget year.
 
(Sec. 6) Prescribes requirements for calculating a sequestration for nonexempt direct spending programs, including Medicare payments and certain nonexempt mandatory programs.
 
(Sec. 7) Prescribes requirements for CBO adjustments of estimates of budgetary effects of PAYGO legislation for legislation affecting current policy for: (1) payments made under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act for physician services; (2) the Estate and Gift Tax under the Internal Revenue Code; and (3) the permanent extension of middle-class tax cuts and the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) relief under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 or the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003.
 
(Sec. 8) Applies to this Act certain sequestration order requirements of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act), as amended by this Act, including the authority of Members of Congress and certain individuals to request an expedited judicial review of a sequestration order.
 
(Sec. 9) Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.
 
(Sec. 10) Exempts from sequestration: (1) low-income subsidies and catastrophic subsidies under Part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of the Social Security Act (SSA); and (2) qualified individual (QI) premiums for Medicare cost-sharing for certain dual eligible low-income Medicare beneficiaries under SSA title XIX (Medicaid).
 
(Sec. 11) Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to specify additional Social Security, veterans, Tier I Railroad Retirement benefits and other programs and activities exempt from a sequestration order as well as certain economic recovery programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2009-07-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 265 - 166 (Roll no. 612). (text: CR H8513-8517)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by recorded vote: 265 - 166 (Roll no. 612).(text: CR H8513-8517)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 196 - 234 (Roll no. 611).
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H8540)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Ryan (WI) motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to report the bill back to the House with an amendment to insert the following new sections: 1.) to extend the discretionary spending caps; 2.) Disclosure of Interest cost; and 3.) CBO scoring of conference reports.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Mr. Ryan (WI) moved to recommit with instructions to The Budget. (consideration: CR H8538-8540; text: CR H8538-8539)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 665, the House proceeded with 1 hour of debate on the Ryan (WI) amendment in the nature of a substitute.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on H.R. 2920.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2920 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The resolution provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A of the report, as modified by the amendment printed in part B of this report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended shall be considered as read. The resolution waives all points of order against the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 665. (consideration: CR H8513-8541)
action_date: 2009-07-22
text: Rule H. Res. 665 passed House.
action_date: 2009-07-21
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 665 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2920 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The resolution provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in part A of the report, as modified by the amendment printed in part B of this report shall be considered as adopted and the bill, as amended shall be considered as read. The resolution waives all points of order against the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2009-06-17
text: Introduced in House