A bill to suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending.

Bill: 113-s-788
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2013-04-23
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget deficits and national debt

Budget process

Conflicts and wars

Defense spending

Department of Defense

Executive agency funding and structure

Military operations and strategy

Terrorism
Latest action: action_date: 2013-04-24
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-04-23
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Makes available for the federal government for FY2013 the amount that would have been made available for the fiscal year if the following actions had not occurred:</p> <ul> <li>sequestration of discretionary spending limits and automatic sequestrations to enforce a specified budget goal under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act);</li> <li>rescission of the applicable percentage of budget authority provided (or obligation limit imposed) for FY2013 for any discretionary account in divisions A through E of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013; and</li> <li> any presidential sequestration order.</li> </ul> <p>Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act with respect to mandatory sequestration, within 15 calendar days after Congress adjourns to end a session, in order to eliminate a budget-year breach, if any, within any category. Requires any amount of budget authority for overseas contingency operations and related activities for FY2014-FY2016 in excess of the levels specified in the Act to be counted in determining whether a breach of the budget has occurred in the security category.</p> <p>Requires the adjustments to discretionary spending limits for appropriations for discretionary accounts enacted for FY2017-FY2021 that Congress designates for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) to be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated for OCO/GWOT. Specifies limits, however, for any OCO/GWOT adjustments in additional new budget authority for such fiscal years.</p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 64 113th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 788 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 23, 2013 Mr. Reid introduced the following bill; which was read the first time April 24, 2013 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending.

1. Suspension of the 2013 sequester Notwithstanding the sequestration order issued by the President pursuant to section 251A(7)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a(7)(A)), there shall be available for the Federal Government for fiscal year 2013 the amount that would have been made available for the Federal Government for fiscal year 2013 but for sections 251 and 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901 and 901a), sections 3001 and 3004 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, and any sequestration order issued by the President. 2. Amendment to OCO adjustments Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 2 U.S.C. 901 ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: (2) Eliminating a breach (A) In general Each nonexempt account within a category shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying the enacted level of sequesterable budgetary resources in that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary to eliminate a breach within that category. (B) Overseas contingencies Any amount of budget authority for overseas contingency operations and related activities for fiscal years 2014 through 2016 in excess of the levels set in subsection 251(b)(2)(E) shall be counted in determining whether a breach has occurred in the security category. ; and (2) in subsection (b)(2)— (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting for fiscal years 2017 through 2021, before the Congress ; and (B) by inserting at the end the following: (E) Overseas contingency operations/global war on terrorism If, for fiscal years 2014 through 2016, appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that Congress designates for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism in statute on an account by account basis, the adjustment for the fiscal year shall be the total of such appropriations for the fiscal year in discretionary accounts designated as being for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism, but not to exceed— (i) for fiscal year 2014, $92,289,000,000 in additional new budget authority; (ii) for fiscal year 2015, $37,283,000,000 in additional new budget authority; and (iii) for fiscal year 2016, $37,283,000,000 in additional new budget authority. .

April 24, 2013 Read the second time and placed on the calendar