Federal Program Control Act

Federal Program Control Act - Title I: Authorizations of Budget Authority - Terminates all budget authority for an unspecified or indefinite number of years except such as apply to trust funds effective October 1, 1980. Limits budget authority for new programs to four years but in no case longer than the original budget authority period plus one year. Prohibits the authorization of budget authority: (1) for more than one fiscal year for a program or activity for which new budget authority has not been authorized for any prior fiscal year; (2) for more than two fiscal years for a program or activity for which new budget authority has been authorized for only one prior fiscal year; or (3) for a program or activity for which new budget authority has been authorized for less than four prior fiscal years, unless a program control review has been conducted, and a report submitted thereon as required by this Act. Prohibits the changing of any trust fund or permanent budget authority without first conducting a program control review of such activity under this Act. Makes this title effective on the first day of the first session of the Ninety-fifth Congress. Title II: Early Elimination of Inactive and Duplicative Programs - Requires the Comptroller General to study all Federal programs and identify for the Congress those which are inactive or duplicative. Requires Congressional committees to give the Comptroller General's report prompt consideration with a view toward eliminating such programs. Title III: Program Control Review - Requires that not less than every fourth year each standing Congressional committee conduct a review of each program within its jurisdiction to study the feasibility of alternative programs, study the impact of such programs on other programs and on the economy, consider the elimination or consolidation of such programs, and study the regulations issued and the personnel levels necessary to carry out such programs. Requires that if such committee recommends the continuation of such program, it state its reasons. Requires the Comptroller General to give to any committee conducting such review a cost-benefit analysis of the program being review and other material, such as the results of past audits, which will aid such committee in its review. Requires the head of the agency which administers a program being reviewed to report to such reviewing committee analyzing the effectiveness of such program. Title IV: Continuing Review and Evaluation - Requires the Comptroller General to conduct audits of programs he has found deficient at least every six months until he determines that the deficiency has been corrected. Directs the Comptroller General to appraise Congress of the results of such such audits. Amends the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 to require that the budget transmitted pursuant to such Act include a description of the achievement of the objectives for the past fiscal year and the goals for the coming fiscal year of each program included in such budget. Title V: Miscellaneous - States that specified provisions of this Act are enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of Congress. Recognizes the right of either House of Congress to change such rules.

Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on June 11, 1976. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.

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