No Budget, No Fundraising Act

Bill: 117-hr-9270
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]
Introduced: 2022-11-03
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-11-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Budget, No Fundraising Act</b></p> <p>This bill prohibits Members of Congress and national congressional campaign committees from soliciting federal campaign funds during a fiscal year until a balanced budget resolution is in effect and appropriations bills that are consistent with the budget resolutions are enacted.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9270 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 3, 2022 Mr. Roy (for himself and Mr. Biggs ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit certain campaign fundraising with respect to Members of Congress, a national congressional campaign committee of a political party, or any affiliated committee of a national congressional campaign committee of a political party during a fiscal year until there is in effect a budget resolution providing for a balanced budget over a 10-year window and each of the regular appropriations bills for the fiscal year has been enacted into law, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Budget, No Fundraising Act . 2. Prohibiting certain campaign fundraising until balanced budget resolution is in effect and appropriations bill are enacted (a) Prohibition Section 323 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30125 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (g) Prohibiting certain fundraising until balanced budget resolution is in effect and appropriations bills are enacted (1) Prohibition During a fiscal year, a Member of Congress (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress), a national congressional campaign committee of a political party, or an affiliated committee of a national congressional campaign committee of a political party may not solicit funds in connection with an election for Federal office until each of the following applies: (A) There is in effect for such fiscal year a concurrent resolution on the budget under which, notwithstanding the exclusion of off-budget items, the excess of total budget authority (including all on- and off-budget authority and net interest costs) over total receipts declines gradually from the fiscal year and each of the 9 succeeding fiscal years such that the total receipts exceed total budget authority not later than the ninth succeeding fiscal year, and in no case later than the last day of fiscal year 2033 (as certified by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office). (B) Each of the regular appropriations bills for such fiscal year has been enacted into law. (C) Each of the regular appropriations bills for such fiscal year, as enacted, is consistent with the concurrent resolution on the budget for such fiscal year. (2) Regular appropriation bill defined In this subsection, the term regular appropriation bill means any annual appropriation bill which, with respect to the Congress involved, is under the jurisdiction of a single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives (pursuant to the Rules of the House of Representatives for that Congress) and a single subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate (pursuant to the Standing Rules of the Senate). . (b) Effective date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2024 and each succeeding fiscal year.