---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 931"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "931"
heading: "Purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/931"
units:
  - "Chapter 20A — Statutory Pay-As-You-Go"
---

# §931. Purpose


The purpose of this chapter is to reestablish a statutory procedure to enforce a rule of budget neutrality on new revenue and direct spending legislation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–139, title I, § 2, Feb. 12, 2010, 124 Stat. 8.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 111–139, Feb. 12, 2010, 124 Stat. 8, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title note set out below and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 111–139, title I, § 1, Feb. 12, 2010, 124 Stat. 8, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending sections 639, 900, 905, and 906 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010’.”