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Budget Enforcement Act

Budget Enforcement Act (BEA) in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Budget Enforcement Act in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): First enacted as Title XIII of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. BEA amended the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and related amendments (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings) and the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. BEA modified procedures and definitions for sequestration and deficit reduction, reformed budgetary credit accounting, maintained the off-budget status of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, and removed Social Security trust fund receipts and outlays from deficit and sequestration calculations through fiscal year 1995. Public Law 103–66 (1993) extended the discretionary spending limits, pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules, and sequestration procedures through fiscal year 1998. The BEA of 1997, enacted as part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, further extended these budget enforcement mechanisms through fiscal year 2002. The BEA of 1997 also added new categories of discretionary spending and made technical and conforming changes to correct drafting errors in the BEA of 1990.

The sequestration and enforcement mechanisms of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, as amended by BEA, expired or became ineffective, at the end of fiscal year 2002. (All BEA-specific terms are defined in A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process: Exposure Draft, January 1993, GAO/AFMD-2.1.1.) (See also Credit Reform; Direct Spending; Gramm-Rudman-Hollings; Mandatory; Off-Budget.)

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Further Reading

  • Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

    (J Wehner, 2010)

  • Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
  • Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

    (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)

Related pieces of legislation:

  1. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
  2. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985
  3. Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act1974
  4. Balanced Budget Act Of 1997
  5. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1986
  6. Balanced-Budget Amendment
  7. Federal Credit Reform Act
  8. Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987
  9. Balanced Budget Downpayment Act, I
  10. Economy Act
  11. Government Performance and Results Act
  12. Budget Act
  13. Congressional Budget Act
  14. A joint resolution ratifying and affirming the report of January 15, 1986, of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office with respect to fiscal year 1986
  15. Budget and Accounting Act
  16. No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013
  17. Budget agreement Act
  18. Budget Control Act of 2011
  19. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921
  20. Veterans Health Care Budget Reform and Transparency Act of 2009

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