US Congress House Bill 239 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 18-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-01-14 - Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
Pending: House Budget Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Zero-based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight (ZERO) Act of 2013 - Requires the President to submit with materials related to each federal budget transmitted to Congress by January 1, 2015, a budget for each agency that contains: a description of each activity for which an agency receives an appropriation in the current fiscal year or for which the agency requests an appropriation for the budget year; the legal basis for each activity; for each activity, three alternative funding levels for the budget year (at least two of which shall be below the funding level for the current fiscal year), a summary of the priorities that would be accomplished within each level, and the additional increments of value that would be added by the higher funding levels; and for each activity one or more measures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to publish guidelines to carry out this Act that shall require: (1) the baseline budget of each agency to be assumed to be zero, and (2) each proposed expenditure to be justified as if it were a new expenditure.

Zero-based Budgeting Ensures Responsible Oversight (ZERO) Act of 2013

Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Kerry Bentivolio [R-MI]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]
Rep. Michael Burgess [R-TX]	Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Rep. Billy Long [R-MO]
Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]	Rep. Mick Mulvaney [R-SC]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Scott Perry [R-PA]
Rep. Trey Radel [R-FL]	Rep. Reid Ribble [R-WI]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]
Rep. Ted Yoho [R-FL]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-01-14	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/239/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr239/BILLS-113hr239ih.pdf