Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014
Latest action. Became public lawWhat a bill becomes when enacted, numbered by Congress and order of enactment: Public Law 119-4 is the 4th law of the 119th Congress.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) No: 113-67.
(This measure has not been amended since the House receded and concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment on December 12, 2013. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Division A: Bipartisan Budget Agreement - Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 - Division A [ sic ]: Budget Enforcement and Deficit Reduction - Title I: Budget Enforcement - Subtitle A: Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act - (Sec. 101) Amends the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to establish (increased) discretionary spending limits (spending caps) for the revised security and nonsecurity categories for FY2014-FY2015. Continues the existing spending limits in such categories for FY2016-FY2021 imposed under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA). (Pursuant to BCA procedures, the initial limits for FY2014-FY2021 are to be lowered (sequestered) by the Office of Management and Budget [OMB] each fiscal year to achieve certain budgetary savings.)
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to direct OMB to make the calculations necessary to implement the direct defense and nondefense spending reductions calculated pursuant to the BCA without regard to this Act's revisions of the discretionary spending limits for FY2014-FY2015.
Directs the President, upon issuance of OMB sequestration preview reports for FY2022-FY2023, to order a sequestration, effective upon issuance so that the percentage reductions for nonexempt direct spending for the defense and nondefense functions are the same percent as the corresponding percentage reductions for such spending for FY2021.
Makes conforming amendments to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act to define:
"revised security category" as discretionary appropriations in budget function 050,
"revised nonsecurity category" as discretionary appropriations other than in budget function 050, and
"category" as the subsets of these discretionary appropriations.
Requires:
discretionary appropriations in each of the categories to be those designated in the joint explanatory statement accompanying the conference report on the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; and
new accounts or activities to be categorized only after consultation with congressional appropriations and budget committees, and to the extent practicable, to include written communication to those committees that affords them the opportunity to comment before official action is taken for such accounts or activities.
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Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Public Law" stage on December 26, 2013. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This joint resolution has been enacted. It is law.
The record's latest action, on December 26, 2013: Became Public Law No: 113-67.
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Has anyone actually voted on it?
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Who is behind it?
HAROLD ROGERS (R-KY) introduced it on September 10, 2013. No cosponsors are recorded.
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Vote history
- HousePassed
- SenatePassed
- PresidentSigned into law