H.R. 3787

[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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