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H. Res. 467
In the House of Representatives, U. S.,
June 14, 2021.
Resolved,
SECTION 1. BUDGET MATTERS.
(a) FISCAL YEAR 2022.—For the purpose of enforcing
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for fiscal year 2022,
this resolution shall apply in the House of Representatives in
the same manner as for a concurrent resolution on the budg-
et for fiscal year 2022.
(b) BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.—The chair of the Com-
mittee on the Budget shall submit a statement for publication
in the Congressional Record as soon as practicable containing
committee allocations for the Committee on Appropriations
for fiscal year 2022 for new discretionary budget authority of
$1,506,027,000,000, and the outlays flowing therefrom, and
for current law mandatory budget authority and outlays, for
the purpose of enforcing section 302 of the Congressional
Budget Act of 1974.
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(c) ADDITIONAL MATTER.—The statement referred to in
subsection (b) may also include for fiscal year 2022 the mat-
ter contained in the provisions referred to in section 2(a).
(d) ADJUSTMENTS.—The chair of the Committee on the
Budget may adjust the allocations included in the statement
referred to in subsection (b) to reflect changes resulting from
the Congressional Budget Office’s updates to its baseline.
(e) APPLICABILITY OF SECTION 251 ADJUSTMENTS TO
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Except as expressly
provided otherwise, the adjustments provided by section
251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 shall not apply to allocations established
pursuant to this resolution.
(f) EMERGENCY REQUIREMENTS.—(1) If a bill, joint
resolution, amendment, or conference report making appro-
priations for discretionary amounts contains a provision pro-
viding new budget authority and outlays or reducing revenue,
and a designation of such provision as an emergency require-
ment, the chair of the Committee on the Budget shall not
count the budgetary effects of such provision for any purpose
in the House.
(2)(A) A proposal to strike a designation under para-
graph (1) shall be excluded from an evaluation of budgetary
effects for any purpose in the House.
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(B) An amendment offered under subparagraph (A) that
also proposes to reduce each amount appropriated or other-
wise made available by the pending measure that is not re-
quired to be appropriated or otherwise made available shall
be in order at any point in the reading of the pending meas-
ure.
(g) ADJUSTMENT FOR DISASTER RELIEF.—The chair of
the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations in-
cluded in the statement referred to in subsection (b) as fol-
lows:
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a bill, joint resolution, amend-
ment, or conference report makes discretionary appro-
priations that Congress designates as being for disaster
relief, the adjustment for fiscal year 2022 shall be the
total of such appropriations for fiscal year 2022 des-
ignated as being for disaster relief, but not to exceed the
amount equal to the total amount calculated for fiscal
year 2022 in accordance with the formula in section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985 except that such formula
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal years 2012
through 2022’’ for ‘‘fiscal years 2012 through 2021’’.
(2) DEFINITION.—As used in this subsection, the
term ‘‘disaster relief’’ means activities carried out pursu-
ant to a determination under section 102(2) of the Rob-
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ert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5122(2)).
(h) ADJUSTMENT FOR WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION.—The
chair of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the alloca-
tions included in the statement referred to in subsection (b)
as follows:
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a bill, joint resolution, amend-
ment, or conference report making discretionary appro-
priations for fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for
wildfire suppression operations in the Wildland Fire
Management accounts at the Department of Agriculture
or the Department of the Interior, then the adjustment
shall be the amount of additional new budget authority
specified in such measure as being for wildfire suppres-
sion operations for fiscal year 2022, but shall not exceed
$2,450,000,000.
(2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this subsection, the
terms ‘‘additional new budget authority’’ and ‘‘wildfire
suppression operations’’ have the meanings specified in
subclauses
(I)
and
(II),
respectively,
of
section
251(b)(2)(F)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit
Control
Act
of
1985
(2
U.S.C.
901(b)(2)(F)(ii)(I) and (II)).
(i) ADJUSTMENT
FOR INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
TAX ENFORCEMENT.—The chair of the Committee on the
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Budget may adjust the allocations included in the statement
referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a bill, joint resolution, amend-
ment, or conference report making discretionary appro-
priations for fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for tax
enforcement activities, including tax compliance to ad-
dress the Federal tax gap, in the Enforcement account
and the Operations Support account of the Internal Rev-
enue Service of the Department of the Treasury, then
the adjustment shall be the additional new budget au-
thority provided in such measure for such purpose, but
shall not exceed $417,000,000.
(2) DEFINITION.—As used in this subsection, the
term ‘‘additional new budget authority’’ means the
amount provided for fiscal year 2022, in excess of
$9,141,000,000, in a bill, joint resolution, amendment,
or conference report and specified for tax enforcement
activities, including tax compliance to address the Fed-
eral tax gap, of the Internal Revenue Service.
(j) ADJUSTMENT
FOR
HEALTH
CARE
FRAUD
AND
ABUSE CONTROL.—The chair of the Committee on the Budg-
et may adjust the allocations included in the statement re-
ferred to in subsection (b) as follows:
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a bill, joint resolution, amend-
ment, or conference report making discretionary appro-
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priations for fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for the
health care fraud abuse control program at the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services (75–8393–0–7–
571), then the adjustment shall be the amount of addi-
tional new budget authority specified in such measure
for such program for fiscal year 2022, but shall not ex-
ceed $556,000,000.
(2) DEFINITION.—As used in this subsection, the
term ‘‘additional new budget authority’’ means the
amount provided for fiscal year 2022, in excess of
$317,000,000, in a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or
conference report making discretionary appropriations
and specified to pay for the costs of the health care
fraud and abuse control program.
(k) ADJUSTMENT
FOR CONTINUING DISABILITY RE-
VIEWS AND REDETERMINATIONS.—The chair of the Com-
mittee on the Budget may adjust the allocations included in
the statement referred to in subsection (b) as follows:
(1) IN GENERAL.—If a bill, joint resolution, amend-
ment, or conference report making discretionary appro-
priations for fiscal year 2022 specifies an amount for
continuing disability reviews under titles II and XVI of
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq., 1381 et
seq.), for the cost associated with conducting redeter-
minations of eligibility under title XVI of the Social Se-
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curity Act, for the cost of co-operative disability inves-
tigation units, and for the cost associated with the pros-
ecution of fraud in the programs and operations of the
Social Security Administration by Special Assistant
United States Attorneys, then the adjustment shall be
the additional new budget authority specified in such
measure for such expenses for fiscal year 2022, but shall
not exceed $1,435,000,000.
(2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this subsection—
(A) the term ‘‘continuing disability reviews’’
means continuing disability reviews under sections
221(i) and 1614(a)(4) of the Social Security Act,
including work-related continuing disability reviews
to determine whether earnings derived from services
demonstrate an individual’s ability to engage in
substantial gainful activity;
(B) the term ‘‘redetermination’’ means redeter-
mination of eligibility under sections 1611(c)(1) and
1614(a)(3)(H) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 1382(c)(1), 1382c(a)(3)(H)); and
(C) the term ‘‘additional new budget author-
ity’’ means the amount provided for fiscal year
2022, in excess of $273,000,000, in a bill, joint res-
olution, amendment, or conference report and speci-
fied to pay for the costs of continuing disability re-
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views, redeterminations, co-operative disability in-
vestigation units, and fraud prosecutions under the
heading ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’
for the Social Security Administration.
SEC. 2. APPLICATION.
(a) ALLOCATIONS.—Upon submission of the statement
referred to in section 1(b), all references to allocations in
‘‘this concurrent resolution’’ in sections 4002, 4003, and
4004 of the Senate Concurrent Resolution 5 (117th Con-
gress) shall be treated for all purposes in the House of Rep-
resentatives as references to the allocations contained in the
statement referred to in section 1(b), as adjusted in accord-
ance with this resolution or any Act.
(b) DISCRETIONARY APPROPRIATION ADJUSTMENTS.—
The chair of the Committee on the Budget may make appro-
priate budgetary adjustments of new budget authority and
the outlays flowing therefrom pursuant to the adjustment au-
thorities provided by section 1.
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b),
any general appropriation bill or bill or joint resolution con-
tinuing appropriations, or amendment thereto or conference
report thereon, may not provide an advance appropriation.
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation may be
provided for programs, activities, or accounts identified in
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lists submitted for printing in the Congressional Record by
the chair of the Committee on the Budget—
(1) for fiscal year 2023, under the heading ‘‘Ac-
counts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’ in an ag-
gregate amount not to exceed $28,852,000,000 in new
budget authority, and for fiscal year 2024, accounts sep-
arately identified under the same heading; and
(2) for fiscal year 2023, under the heading ‘‘Vet-
erans Accounts Identified for Advance Appropriations’’.
(c) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘advance appropriation’’
means any new discretionary budget authority provided in a
general appropriation bill or bill or joint resolution continuing
appropriations for fiscal year 2022, or any amendment there-
to or conference report thereon, that first becomes available
following fiscal year 2022.
SEC. 4. EXPIRATION.
The provisions of this resolution shall expire upon the
adoption of a concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal
year 2022 by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Attest:
Clerk.
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