§ 639. — Reports, summaries, and projections of Congressional budget actions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC639]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 17A--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND FISCAL OPERATIONS
SUBCHAPTER I--CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS
Sec. 639. Reports, summaries, and projections of Congressional
budget actions
(a) Reports on legislation providing new budget authority or providing
increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures
(1) Whenever a committee of either House reports to its House a bill
or joint resolution, or committee amendment thereto, providing new
budget authority (other than continuing appropriations) or providing an
increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures for a fiscal year
(or fiscal years), the report accompanying that bill or joint resolution
shall contain a statement, or the committee shall make available such a
statement in the case of an approved committee amendment which is not
reported to its House, prepared after consultation with the Director of
the Congressional Budget Office--
(A) comparing the levels in such measure to the appropriate
allocations in the reports submitted under section 633(b) of this
title for the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the
budget for such fiscal year (or fiscal years);
(B) containing a projection by the Congressional Budget Office
of how such measure will affect the levels of such budget authority,
budget outlays, revenues, or tax expenditures under existing law for
such fiscal year (or fiscal years) and each of the four ensuing
fiscal years, if timely submitted before such report is filed; and
(C) containing an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of
the level of new budget authority for assistance to State and local
governments provided by such measure, if timely submitted before
such report is filed.
(2) Whenever a conference report is filed in either House and such
conference report or any amendment reported in disagreement or any
amendment contained in the joint statement of managers to be proposed by
the conferees in the case of technical disagreement on such bill or
joint resolution provides new budget authority (other than continuing
appropriations) or provides an increase or decrease in revenues for a
fiscal year (or fiscal years), the statement of managers accompanying
such conference report shall contain the information described in
paragraph (1), if available on a timely basis. If such information is
not available when the conference report is filed, the committee shall
make such information available to Members as soon as practicable prior
to the consideration of such conference report.
(b) Up-to-date tabulations of Congressional budget action
(1) The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall issue to
the committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate reports on
at least a monthly basis detailing and tabulating the progress of
congressional action on bills and joint resolutions providing new budget
authority or providing an increase or decrease in revenues or tax
expenditures for each fiscal year covered by a concurrent resolution on
the budget. Such reports shall include but are not limited to an up-to-
date tabulation comparing the appropriate aggregate and functional
levels (including outlays) included in the most recently adopted
concurrent resolution on the budget with the levels provided in bills
and joint resolutions reported by committees or adopted by either House
or by the Congress, and with the levels provided by law for the fiscal
year preceding the first fiscal year covered by the appropriate
concurrent resolution.
(2) The Committee on the Budget of each House shall make available
to Members of its House summary budget scorekeeping reports. Such
reports--
(A) shall be made available on at least a monthly basis, but in
any case frequently enough to provide Members of each House an
accurate representation of the current status of congressional
consideration of the budget;
(B) shall include, but are not limited to, summaries of
tabulations provided under subsection (b)(1) of this section; and
(C) shall be based on information provided under subsection
(b)(1) of this section without substantive revision.
The chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of
Representatives shall submit such reports to the Speaker.
(c) Five-year projection of Congressional budget action
As soon as practicable after the beginning of each fiscal year, the
Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall issue a report
projecting for the period of 5 fiscal years beginning with such fiscal
year--
(1) total new budget authority and total budget outlays for each
fiscal year in such period;
(2) revenues to be received and the major sources thereof, and
the surplus or deficit, if any, for each fiscal year in such period;
(3) tax expenditures for each fiscal year in such period; and
(4) entitlement authority for each fiscal year in such period.
(Pub. L. 93-344, title III, Sec. 308, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 313; Pub.
L. 99-177, title II, Sec. 201(b), Dec. 12, 1985, 99 Stat. 1051; Pub. L.
101-508, title XIII, Sec. 13206, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388-617; Pub.
L. 105-33, title X, Sec. 10110, Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 685.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1329 of Title 31 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
Amendments
1997--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(A), struck out ``,
new spending authority, or new credit authority,'' after ``new budget
authority'' in heading.
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(4), in introductory
provisions, substituted ``bill or joint resolution'' for ``bill or
resolution'' in two places.
Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(D), in introductory provisions, struck
out ``, new spending authority described in section 651(c)(2) of this
title, or new credit authority,'' after ``continuing appropriations)''.
Subsec. (a)(1)(B). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(C), substituted
``revenues, or tax expenditures'' for ``spending authority, revenues,
tax expenditures, direct loan obligations, or primary loan guarantee
commitments''.
Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(B), redesignated subpar. (C) as (B)
and struck out former subpar. (B) which read as follows: ``including an
identification of any new spending authority described in section
651(c)(2) of this title which is contained in such measure and a
justification for the use of such financing method instead of annual
appropriations;''.
Subsec. (a)(1)(C), (D). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(B),
redesignated subpars. (C) and (D) as (B) and (C), respectively.
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(4), substituted ``bill or
joint resolution'' for ``bill or resolution''.
Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(1)(D), struck out ``, new spending
authority described in section 651(c)(2) of this title, or new credit
authority,'' after ``continuing appropriations)''.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(4), substituted ``bills
and joint resolutions'' for ``bills and resolutions'' in two places.
Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(2), struck out ``, new spending authority
described in section 651(c)(2) of this title, or new credit authority,''
after ``new budget authority''.
Subsec. (c)(3) to (5). Pub. L. 105-33, Sec. 10110(3), inserted
``and'' at end of par. (3), substituted a period for ``; and'' at end of
par. (4), and struck out par. (5) which read as follows: ``credit
authority for each fiscal year in such period.''
1990--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 101-508, Sec. 13206(a)(1), inserted
``(or fiscal years)'' after ``fiscal year'' in introductory provisions
and in subpars. (A) and (C).
Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101-508, Sec. 13206(b), inserted ``(or
fiscal years)'' after ``fiscal year''.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 101-508, Sec. 13206(c), substituted ``for
each fiscal year covered by a concurrent resolution on the budget'' for
``for a fiscal year'' in first sentence, and ``the first fiscal year
covered by the appropriate concurrent resolution'' for ``such fiscal
year'' in second sentence.
1985--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-177, in amending subsec. (a)
generally, designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted
provisions relating to reports on legislation providing new budget
authority, new spending authority, or new credit authority, or providing
an increase or decrease in revenues or tax expenditures, for provisions
relating to reports on legislation providing new budget authority or tax
expenditures, and added par. (2).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-177, in amending subsec. (b) generally,
designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted provisions
relating to issuance of reports on a monthly basis and contents of such
reports, for provisions relating to issuance of reports on a periodic
basis and contents of such reports, and added par. (2).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99-177 amended subsec. (c) generally, adding
pars. (4) and (5).
Effective Date of 1985 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 99-177 effective Dec. 12, 1985, and applicable
with respect to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1985, see section
275(a)(1) of Pub. L. 99-177, set out as an Effective and Termination
Dates note under section 900 of this title.
