Pass a Budget Now Act

Pass a Budget Now Act - Amends the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to reduce the rate of pay for a Member of Congress for failure to agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget.

Reduces the rate of pay during each pay period of any year, if there is no agreement by April 15 on a budget resolution for the following fiscal year, by an amount equal to the product of the average daily rate of pay involved and the number of days during the pay period which occur after April 15 and before Congress does reach agreement on a budget resolution.

Requires all unpaid compensation to be used for deficit reduction.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4036 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4036

 To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to impose a daily 
reduction in the rates of pay for Members of Congress if Congress fails 
           to agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 15, 2012

 Mr. Johnson of Ohio introduced the following bill; which was referred 
   to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the 
   Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 to impose a daily 
reduction in the rates of pay for Members of Congress if Congress fails 
           to agree to a concurrent resolution on the budget.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pass a Budget Now Act''.

SEC. 2. DAILY REDUCTION IN RATES OF PAY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR 
              FAILURE TO AGREE TO CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON BUDGET.

    (a) Reduction.--Section 601(a) of the Legislative Reorganization 
Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``paragraph (2)'' and 
        inserting ``paragraphs (2) and (3)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph (2):
    ``(3)(A) If by April 15 of any year a House of Congress has not 
agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the fiscal year 
which begins on October 1 of that year, the rate of pay for each of the 
positions of that House which are described in paragraph (1) shall be 
reduced during each pay period occurring during the year by an amount 
equal to the product of--
            ``(i) the average daily rate of pay for the position 
        involved for pay periods occurring during the year (determined 
        on the basis of the annual rate of pay for such positions under 
        this subsection); and
            ``(ii) the number of days during the pay period which occur 
        after April 15 and before that House agrees to a concurrent 
        resolution on the budget for the fiscal year which begins on 
        October 1 of that year.
    ``(B) To the extent that compensation is not paid to Members of 
Congress as a result of this paragraph, the amounts not paid shall be 
used for deficit reduction.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to 2013 and each succeeding year.
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