Require a PLAN Act

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.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 444 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 444

 To require that, if the President's fiscal year 2014 budget does not 
achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such budget, the President 
  shall submit a supplemental unified budget by April 1, 2013, which 
 identifies a fiscal year in which balance is achieved, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 1, 2013

Mr. Price of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin, Ms. Jenkins, 
and Mr. Sessions) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                      the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require that, if the President's fiscal year 2014 budget does not 
achieve balance in a fiscal year covered by such budget, the President 
  shall submit a supplemental unified budget by April 1, 2013, which 
 identifies a fiscal year in which balance is achieved, and for other 
                               purposes.

    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 ``Require Presidential Leadership and 
No Deficit Act'' or the ``Require a PLAN Act''.

SEC. 2. PURPOSE AND FINDINGS.

    (a) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to require the President 
to submit to Congress a supplemental unified budget if the President's 
budget for fiscal year 2014 does not achieve balance in a fiscal year 
covered by such budget.
    (b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) With this year's expected failure to meet the statutory 
        deadline for submission of his budget, as stated by the Office 
        of Management and Budget, the President will have only met the 
        statutory deadline in one of his five budget submissions.
            (2) Despite a promise to cut the deficit in half, the 
        deficit doubled during the President's first year in office and 
        has exceeded $1 trillion for four years now.
            (3) Since taking office, the President has allowed the 
        Federal debt to grow by nearly $6 trillion and total debt now 
        exceeds the size of the entire economy of the United States.
            (4) Under the President's most recent budget submission, 
        the budget never achieves balance.
            (5) The President's fiscal year 2013 budget submission 
        includes the admission that under his own policies the Federal 
        Government's ``fiscal position gradually deteriorates''.

SEC. 3. SUBMISSION OF A SUPPLEMENTAL UNIFIED BUDGET.

    (a) In General.--If the President's budget for fiscal year 2014, 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, results in a projected deficit in every fiscal year for 
which estimates are provided in such budget, then the President shall 
submit a supplemental unified budget pursuant to subsection (b).
    (b) Contents of Supplemental Unified Budget.--Not later than April 
1, 2013, the President shall submit to Congress a supplemental unified 
budget that includes--
            (1) the information required under section 1105(a) of title 
        31, United States Code;
            (2) an estimate of the earliest fiscal year in which the 
        supplemental budget is not projected to result in a deficit;
            (3) a detailed description of additional policies to be 
        implemented in order to achieve such result; and
            (4) an explanation of the differences between the 
        President's budget for fiscal year 2014 and the supplemental 
        unified budget referred to in this subsection.
    (c) Definition.--The term ``unified budget'' means the total level 
of outlays, total level of receipts, and the resulting deficit or 
surplus of the United States Government for a fiscal year.
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