US Congress House Bill 444 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 84-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2013 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-02-07 - Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
Pending: Senate Budget Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Require Presidential Leadership and No Deficit Act or Require a PLAN Act - Directs the President, if his budget for FY2014, as submitted to Congress, results in a projected deficit in every fiscal year for which estimates are provided in it, to submit by April 1, 2013, a supplemental unified budget (the total level of outlays, total level of receipts, and the resulting deficit or surplus of the U.S. government for a fiscal year). Requires a supplemental unified budget to include: the information required by law for the President's budget, an estimate of the earliest fiscal year in which the supplemental budget is not projected to result in a deficit, a detailed description of additional policies to be implemented in order to achieve such result (including an evaluation of duplicative agency functions and agency effectiveness, and proposals for consolidating duplicative functions and programs between agencies in the interests of cost-savings), an explanation of the differences between the President's original FY2014 budget and the supplemental unified budget, and an estimate of the cost per taxpayer of the annual deficit for each year in which the supplemental unified budget is projected to result in a deficit. Requires the unified budget to include, under a separate heading entitled "Direct Spending," a category for "Means-Tested Direct Spending and a category for "Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending" which specify: the average rate of growth for each category in the total amount of outlays during the 10-year period preceding the budget year, information on the budget proposals for reform of such programs, a description of programs which shall be considered means-tested direct spending and nonmeans-tested direct spending, and an annual estimate of the total amount of outlays for each such program for the period covered by the budget proposal.

Require a PLAN Act

Rep. Tom Price [R-GA]	Rep. Robert Aderholt [R-AL]	Rep. Lou Barletta [R-PA]	Rep. Garland Barr [R-KY]
Rep. Joe Barton [R-TX]	Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R-FL]	Rep. Diane Black [R-TN]	Rep. Jo Bonner [R-AL]
Rep. Jim Bridenstine [R-OK]	Rep. Mo Brooks [R-AL]	Rep. Susan Brooks [R-IN]	Rep. Vern Buchanan [R-FL]
Rep. Larry Bucshon [R-IN]	Rep. Ken Calvert [R-CA]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Rep. Steve Chabot [R-OH]
Rep. Jason Chaffetz [R-UT]	Rep. Michael Conaway [R-TX]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]	Rep. Eric Crawford [R-AR]
Rep. John Culberson [R-TX]	Sen. Steve Daines [R-MT]	Rep. Ron DeSantis [R-FL]	Rep. Charles Fleischmann [R-TN]
Rep. Bill Flores [R-TX]	Rep. Trent Franks [R-AZ]	Sen. Cory Gardner [R-CO]	Rep. Bob Gibbs [R-OH]
Rep. Paul Gosar [R-AZ]	Rep. Sam Graves [R-MO]	Rep. Tim Griffin [R-AR]	Rep. Ralph Hall [R-TX]
Rep. Andy Harris [R-MD]	Rep. Jeb Hensarling [R-TX]	Rep. Richard Hudson [R-NC]	Rep. Bill Huizenga [R-MI]
Rep. Randy Hultgren [R-IL]	Rep. Lynn Jenkins [R-KS]	Rep. Sam Johnson [R-TX]	Rep. Walter Jones [R-NC]
Rep. Jim Jordan [R-OH]	Rep. David Joyce [R-OH]	Rep. Steve King [R-IA]	Rep. Doug LaMalfa [R-CA]
Rep. Doug Lamborn [R-CO]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Rep. Robert Latta [R-OH]	Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer [R-MO]
Rep. Kenny Marchant [R-TX]	Rep. Tom McClintock [R-CA]	Rep. David McKinley [R-WV]	Rep. Mark Meadows [R-NC]
Rep. Luke Messer [R-IN]	Sen. Markwayne Mullin [R-OK]	Rep. Mick Mulvaney [R-SC]	Rep. Randy Neugebauer [R-TX]
Rep. Richard Nugent [R-FL]	Rep. Alan Nunnelee [R-MS]	Rep. Pete Olson [R-TX]	Rep. Scott Perry [R-PA]
Rep. Joseph Pitts [R-PA]	Rep. Bill Posey [R-FL]	Rep. Tom Reed [R-NY]	Rep. James Renacci [R-OH]
Rep. Tom Rice [R-SC]	Rep. David Roe [R-TN]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]	Rep. Dennis Ross [R-FL]
Rep. Paul Ryan [R-WI]	Rep. Matt Salmon [R-AZ]	Rep. Steve Scalise [R-LA]	Rep. David Schweikert [R-AZ]
Rep. Austin Scott [R-GA]	Rep. Pete Sessions [R-TX]	Rep. Chris Stewart [R-UT]	Rep. Tim Walberg [R-MI]
Rep. Greg Walden [R-OR]	Rep. Jackie Walorski [R-IN]	Rep. Randy Weber [R-TX]	Rep. Lynn Westmoreland [R-GA]
Rep. Roger Williams [R-TX]	Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]

2013-02-06 - House - On Passage (Y: 253 N: 167 NV: 11 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-06 - House - On Motion to Recommit with Instructions (Y: 194 N: 229 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2013-02-06 - House - On Agreeing to the Amendment (Y: 75 N: 348 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2013-02-06 - House - On Agreeing to the Amendment (Y: 194 N: 228 NV: 9 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2013-02-06 - House - On Passage (Y: 253 N: 167 NV: 11 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-02-06 - House - On Motion to Recommit with Instructions (Y: 194 N: 229 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2013-02-06 - House - On Agreeing to the Amendment (Y: 75 N: 348 NV: 8 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2013-02-06 - House - On Agreeing to the Amendment (Y: 194 N: 228 NV: 9 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-02-07	Senate	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
2013-02-06	House	Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
2013-02-06	House	On passage Passed by recorded vote: 253 - 167 (Roll no. 38).
2013-02-06	House	On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 194 - 229 (Roll no. 37). (consideration: CR H393-394)
2013-02-06	House	The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H393)
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Schwartz motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to report the same back to the House forthwith with an amendment to replace the partisan findings in the bill with new findings stating that every bipartisan commission and the majority of Americans believe we should take a balanced, bipartisan approach to reducing the deficit that includes revenue and spending and that sequestration would impose deep cuts to crucial domestic priorities and defense.
2013-02-06	House	Ms. Schwartz moved to recommit with instructions to The Budget. (consideration: CR H392; text: CR H392)
2013-02-06	House	The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
2013-02-06	House	The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H392)
2013-02-06	House	The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 444.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.19 On agreeing to the Schrader amendment (A002) Failed by recorded vote: 75 - 348 (Roll no. 36).
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.18 On agreeing to the Takano amendment (A001) Failed by recorded vote: 194 - 228 (Roll no. 35).
2013-02-06	House	UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question on adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
2013-02-06	House	The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
2013-02-06	House	Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H391-394)
2013-02-06	House	Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 444 as unfinished business.
2013-02-06	House	On motion that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
2013-02-06	House	Mr. Price (GA) moved that the committee rise.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.22 On agreeing to the Scalise amendment (A005) Agreed to by voice vote.
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Scalise amendment.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.22 Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. Scalise. (consideration: CR H389-390; text: CR H389)Amendment requires the President's budget proposal to include a category for Means-Tested Direct Spending and Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending, including average growth for each category.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.21 On agreeing to the Messer amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Messer amendment.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.21 Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. Messer. (consideration: CR H388-389; text: CR H388)Amendment requires the President's budget proposal to include the cost, per taxpayer, of the annual deficit for each year in which such budget is projected to result in a deficit.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.20 On agreeing to the Fleming amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Fleming amendment.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.20 Amendment (A003) offered by Mr. Fleming. (consideration: CR H388; text: CR H388)Amendment requires that the President's supplemental budget must include proposals to consolidate duplicative agency functions and proposals for cost-savings.
2013-02-06	House	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Schrader amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Schrader demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Schrader amendment.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.19 Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. Schrader. (consideration: CR H384-388, H391-392; text: CR H384)Amendment sought to add findings stating that Simpson-Bowles created a balanced package of revenue and spending reforms which should form the basis for meeting the requirements of the bill.
2013-02-06	House	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Takano amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Takano demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
2013-02-06	House	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 48, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Takano amendment.
2013-02-06	House	H.AMDT.18 Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Takano. (consideration: CR H383-384, H391; text: CR H383)Amendment sought to make changes to the findings section, clarifying that Congress holds responsibility for passing budgets and appropriating funds.
2013-02-06	House	GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of general debate on H.R. 444.
2013-02-06	House	The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
2013-02-06	House	Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H377-390; text of measure as introduced: CR H383)
2013-02-05	House	Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 444 as unfinished business.
2013-02-05	House	On motion that the Committee now rise Agreed to by voice vote.
2013-02-05	House	Mr. Price (GA) moved that the Committee now rise.
2013-02-05	House	GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 444.
2013-02-05	House	The Speaker designated the Honorable Rob Bishop to act as Chairman of the Committee.
2013-02-05	House	House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 48 and Rule XVIII.
2013-02-05	House	Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 444 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill, and amendments printed in the report. Each amendment shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.
2013-02-05	House	Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 48. (consideration: CR H364-368)
2013-02-05	House	Rule H. Res. 48 passed House.
2013-02-04	House	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 48 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 444 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order. The resolution waives all points of order against consideration of the bill, and amendments printed in the report. Each amendment shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole.
2013-02-01	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

HR48 (Related) 2013-02-05 - Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/444/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr444/BILLS-113hr444ih.pdf
Text	https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr444/BILLS-113hr444eh.pdf
Roll Call	https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201335
Roll Call	https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201336
Roll Call	https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201337
Roll Call	https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/201338