US Congress House Bill 879 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-28 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Pending: House Oversight And Government Reform Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act - Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require: (1) biennial (currently annual) budget resolutions, (2) biennial appropriations Acts, and (3) biennial government strategic and performance plans. Defines the budget biennium as the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to: (1) determine the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period with a biennial budget process based on such period, and (2) report the findings to the House and Senate Budget Committees.

Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act

Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]	Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]	Sen. Cynthia Lummis [R-WY]
Rep. Marlin Stutzman [R-IN]	Rep. Lee Terry [R-NE]	Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. C.W. Young [R-FL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-28	House	Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
2013-02-28	House	Referred to House Rules
2013-02-28	House	Referred to House Budget
2013-02-28	House	Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Rules, and Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

SB280 (Related) 2013-02-12 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
SB554 (Related) 2013-03-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
SB625 (Related) 2013-03-20 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
HB1654 (Related) 2013-04-18 - Referred to House Ways and Means
HB1762 (Related) 2013-04-25 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
HB1869 (Related) 2014-12-11 - Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 492.
HB3059 (Related) 2013-08-02 - Referred to House Rules

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/879/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr879/BILLS-113hr879ih.pdf