---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1103"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1103"
heading: "Budget ceiling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1103"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 11 — The Budget and Fiscal, Budget, and Program Information"
---

# §1103. Budget ceiling


Congress reaffirms its commitment that budget outlays of the United States Government for a fiscal year may be not more than the receipts of the Government for that year.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 908.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1103 | 31:27. | Oct. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–435, § 7, 92 Stat. 1053; restated Oct. 7, 1980, Pub. L. 96–389, § 3, 94 Stat. 1553. |

The word “total” is omitted as surplus. The words “for a fiscal year” are substituted for “beginning with Fiscal Year 1981” because of the restatement and to eliminate executed words. The words “for that year” are added because of the restatement.