A bill to provide for a biennial budget process and a biennial appropriations process and to enhance oversight and the performance of the Federal Government.
Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act
Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to require biennial (currently, annual) budget resolutions, biennial appropriations Acts, and biennial government strategic and performance plans.
States that budget biennium is the two consecutive fiscal years beginning on October 1 of any odd-numbered year.
Requires the Office of Management and Budget to report to Congress on the impact and feasibility of changing the definition of a fiscal year and the budget process based on that definition to a two-year fiscal period.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rules, 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.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S202)
Committee on the Budget. Hearings held.
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