Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act

Bill: 115-s-2979
Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2018-05-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural conservation and pollution
Alternative and renewable resources
Appropriations
Child health
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of State
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Disaster relief and insurance
Economic development
Energy efficiency and conservation
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental regulatory procedures
Executive agency funding and structure
Farmland
Floods and storm protection
Foreign aid and international relief
Forests, forestry, trees
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government trust funds
Health care costs and insurance
Health care coverage and access
Health programs administration and funding
Housing and community development funding
Housing supply and affordability
Indian social and development programs
Land transfers
Land use and conservation
National and community service
Public housing
Public transit
Public utilities and utility rates
Railroads
Roads and highways
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
Transportation programs funding
Unemployment
Water quality
Water resources funding
Water use and supply
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Summary:
action_date: 2018-05-24
text: 

Spending Cuts to Expired and Unnecessary Programs Act

 
This bill rescinds approximately $15 billion in budget authority over 2018-2028 that was proposed to be rescinded by the President under procedures included in the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
 
(A rescission is legislation enacted by Congress that cancels the availability of previously enacted budget authority before the authority would otherwise expire. Under current law, the President may propose rescissions to Congress, which must be enacted into law to take effect. Congress may rescind all, part, or none of the amounts proposed by the President. If Congress does not pass rescission legislation within 45 days of continuous session of Congress, the President must make the funds available.) 
 
The bill rescinds budget authority from specified programs and accounts within: 
 
 
 the Department of Agriculture, 
 
 the Department of Commerce, 
 
 the Department of Energy, 
 
 the Department of Health and Human Services, 
 
 the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 
 
 the Department of Justice, 
 
 the Department of Labor, 
 
 the Department of State, 
 
 the Millennium Challenge Corporation, 
 
 the U.S. Agency for International Development. 
 
 the Department of Transportation, 
 
 the Department of the Treasury, 
 
 the Corporation for National and Community Service, and 
 
 the Railroad Retirement Board. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2018-05-24
text: Read twice and referred concurrently to the Committees on Appropriations; the Budget pursuant to the order of January 30, 1975, as modified by the order of April 11, 1986, with instructions that the Budget Committee be authorized to report its views to the Appropriations Committee, and that the latter alone be authorized to report the bill.
action_date: 2018-05-24
text: Introduced in Senate