119-hr3787

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3787 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 3787

 To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
 offset emergency spending, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 June 5, 2025

 Mr. Stutzman (for himself, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Perry, Mr. Gooden, Mr. 
 Shreve, Mr. Grothman, Mr. Self, and Mr. Norman) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Budget, and 
in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently 
 determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to 
 offset emergency spending, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Spending Accountability 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SEQUESTRATION TO OFFSET EMERGENCY SPENDING.

    (a) Sequestration.--

    (1) In general.--With respect to any direct spending or 
 discretionary spending that is appropriated or otherwise made 
 available during a fiscal year that is emergency spending, the 
 Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall, on 
 October 1 of the subsequent fiscal year and each of the 4 
 following fiscal years, issue a sequestration order that 
 reduces total budgetary resources such that outlay savings 
 equal one-fifth of the total amount of such emergency spending.

    (2) Notification.--The Director shall submit written notice 
 to Congress on the date of any sequestration order under 
 paragraph

    (1) . Such notice shall include a list of any account 
 affected by such order.

    (3) Discretionary and direct spending application.--If 
 emergency spending made available during a fiscal year is 
 discretionary spending, any sequestration under subsection

    (a) with respect to such emergency spending may only be made with 
 respect to discretionary accounts. If emergency spending made 
 available during a fiscal year is direct spending, any 
 sequestration required under subsection

    (a) with respect to 
 such emergency spending may only be made to direct spending 
 accounts.

    (b) Application.--With respect to any sequestration under 
subsection

    (a) --

    (1) except as provided in subsection
            (c) , and 
 notwithstanding any other provision of law, no account is 
 exempted from reduction;

    (2) such reduction shall be at a uniform rate across all 
 programs and activities that are subject to sequestration; and

    (3) the total amount of the sequestration shall be reduced 
 by the amount of any offsetting reduction in discretionary 
 spending or direct spending (as the case may be) in the measure 
 enacted into law that provided the applicable emergency 
 spending.
            (c) Exempt Programs.--The following programs and accounts shall be 
exempt from sequestration under this section:

    (1) Benefits payable under the old-age, survivors, and 
 disability insurance program established under title II of the 
 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), and benefits 
 payable under sections 3 and 4 of the Railroad Retirement Act 
 of 1937 (45 U.S.C. 231 et seq.).

    (2) Any account within budget function 050 (National 
 Defense).

    (3) All programs administered by the Department of Veterans 
 Affairs.

    (4) The Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social 
 Security Act.
            (d) Requirement for Measures Containing Emergency Spending.--

    (1) Reported measures.--With respect to any bill or joint 
 resolution favorably reported by any standing committee of 
 Congress that includes emergency spending, the report 
 accompanying such measure shall include a detailed 
 justification of why each instance of such spending is 
 necessary.

    (2) Other measures.--Any measure considered by the House of 
 Representatives not described in paragraph

    (1) that includes 
 emergency spending shall include such a detailed explanation, 
 to be published in the Congressional Record prior to 
 consideration.

    (3) Requirements.--Any justification under paragraph

    (1) or

    (2) shall include reasons why such spending meets the 
 definitions of the terms ``emergency'' and ``unanticipated'' 
 (as those terms are defined in 

section 250
            (c) of the Balanced 
 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985).

    (e) 

=== Definitions. ===
-In this Act--

    (1) the terms ``budget authority'' and ``outlays'' have the 
 meaning given those terms in 

section 3 of the Congressional 
 Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974;

    (2) the terms ``budgetary resources'', ``discretionary 
 spending'', ``direct spending'', and ``sequestration'' have the 
 meaning given those terms in 

section 250
            (c) of the Balanced 
 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; and

    (3) the term ``emergency spending'' means any budget 
 authority--
        (A) that is designated--
            (i) under 

section 251

    (b)

    (2)
        (A) ,
            (D) , or
        (F) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
 Control Act of 1985;
            (ii) under 

section 4

    (g) of the Statutory-
 Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010; or
            (iii) under a concurrent resolution on the 
 budget as being for an emergency; and
        (B) that is otherwise exempted from counting 
 against any Federal spending limitation, including the 
 discretionary spending limits in 

section 251
            (c) of the 
 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
 1985 or the PAYGO scorecards.
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