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kind: "diff"
citation: "H.R. 444"
bill: "113-hr-444"
heading: "Require Presidential Leadership and No Deficit Act"
from: "ih"
from_label: "Introduced in House"
to: "eh"
to_label: "Engrossed in House"
sections_amended: 1
sections_added: 0
sections_removed: 0
url: "https://uscodex.org/bills/113/hr/444/changes/eh"
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# H.R. 444 — what changed

H.R. 444, Require Presidential Leadership and No Deficit Act — 1 section amended between Introduced in House and Engrossed in House.

Edits are marked `<del>struck</del>` and `<ins>inserted</ins>`.

## 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 <del>result; and</del><ins>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);</ins>
  - (4) an explanation of the differences between the President’s budget for fiscal year 2014 and the supplemental unified budget referred to in this <del>subsection.</del><ins>subsection;</ins>
  - (5) <ins>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; and</ins>
  - (6) <ins>under a separate heading entitled “Direct Spending”, which shall include a category for “Means-Tested Direct Spending” and a category for “Nonmeans-Tested Direct Spending” and sets forth—</ins>
    - (A) <ins>the average rate of growth for each category in the total amount of outlays during the 10-year period preceding the budget year;</ins>
    - (B) <ins>information on the budget proposals for reform of such programs;</ins>
    - (C) <ins>a description of programs which shall be considered means-tested direct spending and nonmeans-tested direct spending for purposes of this paragraph; and</ins>
    - (D) <ins>an annual estimate of the total amount of outlays for each such program for the period covered by the budget proposal.</ins>
- (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.