This is a Non Profit Project. We don't collect personal data and we don't use cookies.

Contents

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act

Act Details

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act was, as a bill, a proposal (now, a piece of legislation) introduced on 1996-01-25 in the House of Commons and Senate respectively of the 104 United States Congress by Bob Livingston in relation with: AIDS (Disease), Administrative fees, Administrative procedure, American economic assistance, Apartment houses, Appropriations, Armed forces and national security, Arts, Arts, culture, religion, Bilingual education, Bioengineering, Birth control, Cabinet officers, Canals, Capitol (Washington, D.C.), Child abuse, Child development, Child welfare, Civil rights and liberties, minority issues, Commemorations, Commerce, Community and school, Community development banking, Community hospitals, Community policing, Compensatory education, Congress, Congressional office buildings, Consumer protection, Counseling, Courts of special jurisdiction, Crime and law enforcement, Crime prevention, Day care, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of State, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of the Interior, Disaster relief, District of Columbia, Dropout prevention, Drug abuse, Drug abuse prevention, Drug law enforcement, Drugs and youth, Economics and public finance, Education, Education of socially handicapped children, Educational accountability, Educational facilities, Educational innovations, Educational policy, Elementary and secondary education, Emergency management, Energy, Energy policy, Energy research, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental education, Environmental protection, Executive reorganization, Families, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Federal aid to health facilities, Federal aid to higher education, Federal aid to hospitals, Federal aid to housing, Federal aid to law enforcement agencies, Federal aid to youth services, Federal employees, Federal installations, Federally-guaranteed loans, Fetal tissues, Finance and financial sector, Floods, Foreclosure, Fossil fuels, Gangs, Genetic engineering, Government corporations, Government lending, Government operations and politics, Government spending reductions, Hawaiians, Hazardous waste site remediation, Health, Higher education, Historic sites, History, Homeless, Housing and community development, Housing authorities, Housing for the aged, Housing subsidies, Human embryology, Income, Income statistics, Independent regulatory commissions, Indian housing, Indian medical care, Inspectors general, International affairs, Labor and employment, Land transfers, Law, Law enforcement officers, Layoffs, Legal assistance to the poor, Legal education, Lobbying, Lumber trade, Medical research, Mines and mineral resources, Minorities, Mississippi, Mortgage guaranty insurance, Narcotic traffic, National forests, National parks, National service, Native Americans, Older workers, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Petroleum reserves, Police, Population policy, Public housing, Public lands and natural resources, Rent, Rent subsidies, Rental housing, Research, Research and development, Residential rehabilitation, Salaries, Scholarships, Science, technology, communications, Securities and Exchange Commission, Social welfare, Strategic materials, Tax-exempt organizations, Taxation, Teacher education, Technological innovations, Technology transfer, Timber sales, Trails, Transportation and public works, Trauma care, Travel costs, United Nations finances, United States Information Agency, Urban affairs, Urban renewal, Vaccination, Vaccines, Veterans' benefits, Veterans' medical care, Virginia, Volunteer workers, Wages, Water resources development, White House conferences, Women, Women's education.

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act became law (1) in the United States on 1996-01-26. It was referred to the following Committee(s): (2)

House Appropriations (HSAP)

Sponsor

Bob Livingston, Representative from Louisiana, district 1

The proposal had the following cosponsors:

Wayne Allard, Senator, from Colorado
Bill Barrett, Representative, from Nebraska, district 3
John Andrew Boehner, Republican, Representative, from Ohio, district 8
Saxby Chambliss, Republican, Senator, from Georgia, district 8
Dick Chrysler, Republican, Representative, from Michigan
Larry Ed Combest, Republican, Representative, from Texas, district 19
Vernon James Ehlers, Republican, Representative, from Michigan, district 3
Norvell William (bill) Emerson, Republican, Representative, from Missouri
Robert Terry Everett, Republican, Representative, from Alabama, district 2
Thomas W. Ewing, Republican, Representative, from Illinois, district 15
Steven Craig Gunderson, Republican, Representative, from Wisconsin
Ron Lewis, Republican, Representative, from Kentucky, district 2
George R. Nethercutt, Republican, Representative, from Washington, district 5
Nick H. Smith, Republican, Representative, from Michigan, district 7
Todd Tiahrt, Representative, from Kansas, district 4

Act Overview

Number: 2880 (3)
Official Title as Introduced: Making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes (4)
Short Title: Balanced Budget Downpayment Act I
Popular Title: Balanced Budget Downpayment Act
Date First Introduced: 1996-01-25
Sponsor Name: Bob Livingston
Assignment Process: See Committe Assignments (5)
Latest Major Activity/Action: Enacted
Date Enacted (signed, in general (6), by President): 1996-01-26
Type: hr (7)
Main Topic: Economics and public finance
Related Bills: (8)
hr1848-104, Reason: related, Type: bill
hr1868-104, Reason: related, Type: bill
hr2620-104, Reason: related, Type: bill
Summary of Balanced Budget Downpayment Act : Govtrack. Authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress.
Primary Source: Congress Website

Text of the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Unnamed Title II: Departments of Commerce Justice and State the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Title III: Foreign Operations Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Title IV: Housing and Urban Development Balanced Budget Downpayment Act I – Title I: – Makes appropriations for FY 1996 to carry out at rates not to exceed the current operating rate the following: (1) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1996; and (2) the Departments of Labor Health and Human Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1996. (Sec. 106) Makes appropriations available until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15 1996. (Sec. 111) Provides that except for section 106 provisions whenever one of the above listed Acts as passed does not include funding for an ongoing project or activity such project or activity may be continued at a rate that is reduced from the current level by 25 percent. (Sec. 112) Provides that notwithstanding other provisions of this Act except section 106 whenever the rate of operations for any continuing project or activity for which there is a budget request would result in a furlough of Government employees such rate may be increased to minimum level that would enable the furlough to be avoided. (Sec. 115) Provides that except for section 106 the rate for operations of the following projects or activities shall be only the minimum necessary to accomplish orderly termination: (1) Child Development Associates Scholarships in the Department of health and Human Services; (2) Dependent Care Planning and Development in the Department of Health and Human Services; (3) Law Related Education in the Department of Education; (4) Dropout Prevention Demonstrations in the Department of Education; (5) Aid for Institutional development- Endowment grants in the Department of Education; (6) Aid for Institutional Development-Evaluation in the Department of Education; (7) Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native Cultural Arts; (8) Innovative Projects in Community Service in the Department of Education; (9) Cooperative Education in the Department of Education; and (10) Douglas Teacher Scholarships in the Department of Education. (Sec. 116) Requires any Federal employees furloughed as a result of any lapse in appropriations after midnight November 13 1995 until enactment of this Act to be compensated at their standard rate of compensation during the lapse. (Sec. 117) Provides that except for section 106 upon enactment of this Act any new grants or contracts for the following programs shall be made at a level not to exceed a rate of 75 percent of prior monthly awards: (1) in the Department of Health and Human Services: (a) Health Resources and Services Administration; Health Resources and Services: Trauma Care and Health Care Facilities; (b) Assistant Secretary for Health; Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health: National Vaccine Program Health Care Reform Data Analysis and National AIDS Program Office; (c) Health Care Financing Administration; Program Management: Essential Access Community Hospitals; (d) Administration for Children and Families; Children and Families Services Program: Youth Gang Substance Abuse Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect Child Welfare Research Homeless Service Grants and Community Schools (crime trust fund); (e) Administration on Aging; Aging Services Program: Pension Counseling Federal Council on Aging and White House Conference on Aging; (2) in the Department of Education: (a) Education for the Disadvantaged: State School Improvement; (b) School Improvement Programs; Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities: National Program Women's Educational Equity; (c) Bilingual and Immigrant Education: Bilingual Education Support Services; (d) Higher Education: Faculty Development Fellowships and School College and University Partnerships; and (3) in Related Agencies: (a) Corporation for National and Community Service; Domestic Volunteer Service Programs Operating Expenses: Senior Demonstration Program; and (b) National Education Standards and Improvement Council. (Sec. 118) Places specified limits on cabinet level travel. (Sec. 119) Limits a Pell Grant during 1996-1997 to a maximum of $2440. (Sec. 121) Provides for the sale of the property located at 501 First Street Southeast District of Columbia. (Sec. 122) Appropriates sums necessary for all projects and activities funded under the account heading “Office for Civil Rights” under the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services at a specified rate. (Sec. 123) Funds activities necessary to effect the following program eliminations and transfers of selected functions at a rate of operations provided for in the conference report on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1996: (1) all projects and activities under the account heading “Public Development” under the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; (2) all projects and activities under the account heading “Mines and Minerals” under the Bureau of Mines in the Department of the Interior; (3) all activities related to the transfer of functions from the Bureau of Mines under the account heading “Management of Lands and Resources” under the Bureau of Land Management in the Department of the Interior; (4) all activities related to the transfers of functions from the Bureau of Mines and from the National Biological Service under the account heading “Surveys Investigations and Research” under the U.S. Geological Survey in the Department of the Interior; and (5) all activities related to the transfer of functions from the Bureau of Mines under the account heading “Fossil Energy Research and Development” in the Department of Energy. (Sec. 124) Makes appropriations available for section 123 until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15 1996. (Sec. 125) Provides for the sale of Weeks Island oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. (Sec. 126) Appropriates amounts necessary under conditions provided for in the applicable FY 1995 appropriations Act to continue at a rate of operations provided for in the conference report on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1996 the following projects or activities which are conducted in FY 1995 of the Indian Health Services Indian Health Service Facilities Bureau of Indian Affairs National Park Service the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service. Makes such appropriations available until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15 1996. (Sec. 128) Prohibits any funds made available in PL 104-91 form being used for: (1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed discarded or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research under applicable Federal regulations. (Sec. 131) Appropriates additional funds to repair flood damage to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park. Title II: Departments of Commerce Justice and State the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations – Appropriates necessary amounts at a rate of operations provided for in the conference report on the Departments of Commerce Justice and State the Judiciary and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 1996 subject to exceptions. Stipulates that notwithstanding any other provision of this Act the rate of operations only for program administration and the continuation of grants awarded in FY 1995 and prior years may be increased up to a level of 75 percent of the final FY 1995 appropriated amount for the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Ounce of Prevention Council Drug Courts Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment and Cops on the Beat Program. Appropriates necessary amounts at a rate of operations provided for in the conference report on the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act 1996 subject to exceptions. Stipulates that notwithstanding any other provision of this Act the rate of operations for may be increased up to a level of 75 percent of the FY 1995 level for the Corporation for National and Community Service the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and the Office of Consumer Affairs. (Sec. 202) Makes appropriations under this title available until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15 1996. (Sec. 208) Amends Public Law 104-92 to make FY 1996 appropriations to continue all activities necessary to provide all veterans' benefits. Title III: Foreign Operations Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations – Makes FY 1996 appropriations at a rate of operations provided for in the conference report for the programs and activities of the Foreign Operations Export Financing and Related Programs Appropriations Act 1996. Inserts in such conference report in lieu of Senate amendment 115 a provision which prohibits subject to provisos funds being made available for population planning activities or other population assistance under specified Federal law unless such funding is expressly authorized by law. (Sec. 302) Makes appropriations under this title available until the earlier of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this Act; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) March 15 1996. Title IV: Housing and Urban Development – Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during FY 1996 to manage and dispose of multifamily properties owned by the Secretary including the provision for grants from the General insurance Fund for the necessary costs of rehabilitation and other related development costs and multifamily mortgages held by the Secretary. (Sec. 402) Directs public housing agencies to: (1) require each family who is assisted under the certificate or moderate rehabilitation program under section 8 to pay a minimum monthly rent of at least $25 but not more than $50; (2) reduce the monthly assistance payment on behalf of each family assisted under section 8 voucher program so that the family pays a minimum monthly rent of at least $25 but not more than $50; (3) require each assisted family under the public housing program to pay a minimum monthly rent of $25 but not more than $50. Requires for other section 8 rental assistance programs that each assisted family pay a minimum monthly rent of $25 but not more than $25. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to permit a public housing agency to: (1) adopt ceiling rents that reflect the reasonable market value of the housing but that are not less than the monthly costs of operating the agency and making a deposit to a monthly reserve; and (2) allow families to pay such ceiling rents unless such rent would exceed the family's rent. Permits a public housing agency to adopt other adjustments to income. Requires a public housing agency to establish a written system of preferences for admission to public housing that is not inconsistent with the comprehensive housing affordability strategy under title I of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act. Revises tenant selection provisions concerning section 8 and moderate rehabilitation section 8 voucher program and section 8 new construction and substantial rehabilitation. (Sec. 403) Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish fair market rentals for purposes of section 8(c)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 that shall be based on the 40th percentile rent of rental distributions of standard quality rental units. (Sec. 404) Repeals retroactive to November 28 1990 provisions of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act that placed a maximum annual limitation on rent increases resulting from employment. (Sec. 405) Directs the Secretary to use amounts available for the renewal of section 8 assistance upon termination of a contract for such assistance to provide assistance under such section for the eligible families assisted under contracts at termination. (Sec. 406) Extends for one year the demonstration program of insurance of home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners. (Sec. 407) Permits the Secretary to pay insurance benefits to an FHA single-family mortgagee to recompense the mortgagee for actions to provide an alternative to foreclosure of a mortgage in default. Permits the Secretary to establish a program for the payment of a partial claim to a mortgagee that agrees to apply the claim amount to payment of a mortgage on a one-to-four family residence in default.

Act Notes

[Note 1] An Act (like Balanced Budget Downpayment Act ) or a resolution cannot become a law in the United States until it has been approved (passed) in identical form by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as signed by the President (but see (5)). If the two bodys of the Congress versions of an Act are not identical, one of the bodies might decide to take a further vote to adopt the bill (see more about the Congress process here). An Act may be pass in identical form with or without amendments and with or without conference. (see more about Enrollment).
[Note 2] Proposals are referred to committees for preliminary consideration, then debated, amended, and passed (or rejected) by the full House or Senate. To prevent endless shuttling of bills between the House and Senate, bills like Balanced Budget Downpayment Act are referred to joint committees made up of members of both houses.
[Note 3] For more information regarding this legislative proposal, go to THOMAS, select “Bill Number,” search on (Balanced Budget Downpayment Act )
[Note 4] Making appropriations for fiscal year 1996 to make a downpayment toward a balanced budget, and for other purposes. The current official title of a bill is always present, assigned at introduction (for example, in this case, on 1996-01-25) and can be revised any time. This type of titles are sentences.
[Note 5] The Act is referred to the appropriate committee by the Speaker of any of the two Houses. Bills are placed on the calendar of the committee to which they have been assigned. See Assignment Process.
[Note 6] Regarding exceptions to President´s approval, a bill that is not signed (returned unsigned) by the President can still become law if at lest two thirds of each of the two bodys of the Congress votes to pass it, which is an infrequent case. See also Presidential Veto.
[Note 7] Legislative Proposal types can be: hr, hres, hjres, hconres, s, sres, sjres, sconres. A bill originating in the Senate is designated by the letter “S”, and a bill originating from the House of Representatives begins with “H.R.”, followed, in both cases, by its individual number which it retains throughout all its parliamentary process.
[Note 8] For information regarding related bill/s to Balanced Budget Downpayment Act , go to THOMAS.

Analysis

No analysis (criticism, advocacy, etc.) about Balanced Budget Downpayment Act submitted yet.

AIDS (Disease)
Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
American economic assistance
Apartment houses
Appropriations
Armed forces and national security
Arts
Arts, culture, religion
Bilingual education
Bioengineering
Birth control
Cabinet officers
Canals
Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
Child abuse
Child development
Child welfare
Civil rights and liberties, minority issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Community and school
Community development banking
Community hospitals
Community policing
Compensatory education
Congress
Congressional office buildings
Consumer protection
Counseling
Courts of special jurisdiction
Crime and law enforcement
Crime prevention
Day care
Department of Agriculture
Department of Commerce
Department of Education
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Department of Justice
Department of Labor
Department of State
Department of Veterans Affairs
Department of the Interior
Disaster relief
District of Columbia
Dropout prevention
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug law enforcement
Drugs and youth
Economics and public finance
Education
Education of socially handicapped children
Educational accountability
Educational facilities
Educational innovations
Educational policy
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency management
Energy
Energy policy
Energy research
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental education
Environmental protection
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to higher education
Federal aid to hospitals
Federal aid to housing
Federal aid to law enforcement agencies
Federal aid to youth services
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fetal tissues
Finance and financial sector
Floods
Foreclosure
Fossil fuels
Gangs
Genetic engineering
Government corporations
Government lending
Government operations and politics
Government spending reductions
Hawaiians
Hazardous waste site remediation
Health
Higher education
Historic sites
History
Homeless
Housing and community development
Housing authorities
Housing for the aged
Housing subsidies
Human embryology
Income
Income statistics
Independent regulatory commissions
Indian housing
Indian medical care
Inspectors general
International affairs
Labor and employment
Land transfers
Law
Law enforcement officers
Layoffs
Legal assistance to the poor
Legal education
Lobbying
Lumber trade
Medical research
Mines and mineral resources
Minorities
Mississippi
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Narcotic traffic
National forests
National parks
National service
Native Americans
Older workers
Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation
Petroleum reserves
Police
Population policy
Public housing
Public lands and natural resources
Rent
Rent subsidies
Rental housing
Research
Research and development
Residential rehabilitation
Salaries
Scholarships
Science, technology, communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
Social welfare
Strategic materials
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education
Technological innovations
Technology transfer
Timber sales
Trails
Transportation and public works
Trauma care
Travel costs
United Nations finances
United States Information Agency
Urban affairs
Urban renewal
Vaccination
Vaccines
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' medical care
Virginia
Volunteer workers
Wages
Water resources development
White House conferences
Women
Women's education

Balanced Budget Downpayment Act