US Congress Senate Bill 788 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on April 23 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2013-04-24 - Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Makes available for the federal government for FY2013 the amount that would have been made available for the fiscal year if the following actions had not occurred: sequestration of discretionary spending limits and automatic sequestrations to enforce a specified budget goal under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act); rescission of the applicable percentage of budget authority provided (or obligation limit imposed) for FY2013 for any discretionary account in divisions A through E of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013; and any presidential sequestration order. Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act with respect to mandatory sequestration, within 15 calendar days after Congress adjourns to end a session, in order to eliminate a budget-year breach, if any, within any category. Requires any amount of budget authority for overseas contingency operations and related activities for FY2014-FY2016 in excess of the levels specified in the Act to be counted in determining whether a breach of the budget has occurred in the security category. Requires the adjustments to discretionary spending limits for appropriations for discretionary accounts enacted for FY2017-FY2021 that Congress designates for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) to be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated for OCO/GWOT. Specifies limits, however, for any OCO/GWOT adjustments in additional new budget authority for such fiscal years.

A bill to suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending.

Sen. Harry Reid [D-NV]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-04-24	Senate	Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64.
2013-04-23	Senate	Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2901)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/788/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/s788/BILLS-113s788pcs.pdf