Zero-based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight (ZERO) Act of 2013

Bill: 113-hr-239
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2013-01-14
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Appropriations

Budget process

Executive agency funding and structure
Latest action: action_date: 2013-01-14
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-01-14
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Zero-based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight (ZERO) Act of 2013 - Requires the President to submit with materials related to&nbsp;each federal budget transmitted to Congress by January 1, 2015, a budget for each agency that contains:</p> <ul> <li> a description of each activity for which an agency receives an appropriation in the current fiscal year or for which the agency requests an appropriation for the budget year;</li> <li> the legal basis for each activity;</li> <li> for each activity, three alternative funding levels for the budget year (at least two of which shall be below the funding level for the current fiscal year), a summary of the priorities that would be accomplished within each level, and the additional increments of value that would be added by the higher funding levels; and</li> <li> for each activity one or more measures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness.</li> </ul> <p>Requires the&nbsp; Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to&nbsp;publish guidelines to carry out this Act&nbsp;that shall require: (1) the baseline budget of each agency to be assumed to be zero, and (2) each proposed expenditure to be justified as if it were a new expenditure.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 239 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 14, 2013 Mr. Ross introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget A BILL To require zero-based budgeting for departments and agencies of the Government.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Zero-based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight (ZERO) Act of 2013 . 2. Zero-based budgeting Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (i) (1) The President shall submit with materials related to each budget transmitted under subsection (a) on or after January 1, 2015, a budget for each department and agency which contains the following information: (A) A description of each activity for which the department or agency receives an appropriation in the current fiscal year or for which the department or agency requests an appropriation for the budget year. (B) The legal basis for each activity. (C) For each activity, three alternative funding levels for the budget year, and a summary of the priorities that would be accomplished within each level, and the additional increments of value that would be added by the higher funding levels. At least two of these funding levels shall be below the funding level for the current fiscal year. (D) For each activity, one or more measures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness. (2) As soon as practicable, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall publish guidelines to carry out this subsection. The guidelines shall require that the baseline budget of each department or agency is assumed to be zero and each proposed expenditure shall be justified as if it were a new expenditure. .