The "Emergency Spending Accountability Act" requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to implement a sequestration process to offset designated emergency spending. For any direct or discretionary emergency spending, the OMB Director must issue a sequestration order on October 1 of the subsequent fiscal year and for the four following fiscal years. Each annual sequestration must reduce total budgetary resources by one-fifth of the original emergency spending amount, ensuring full offset over five years. These reductions are applied to the same type of spending (discretionary or direct) as the original emergency appropriation, and the Director must provide written notification to Congress detailing the sequestration order and affected accounts. The bill stipulates that, with specific exceptions, no account is exempt from these uniform rate reductions across all subject programs and activities. However, programs such as Social Security , Medicare , national defense (budget function 050), and all Department of Veterans Affairs programs are explicitly exempt from sequestration. Furthermore, any legislative measure containing emergency spending must include a detailed justification explaining why the spending is necessary and meets the definitions of "emergency" and "unanticipated" as per existing budget law. This justification must be included in committee reports or published in the Congressional Record before House consideration.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2661)
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2661)
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Spending Accountability Act
USA119th CongressHR-3787| House
| Updated: 6/12/2025
The "Emergency Spending Accountability Act" requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to implement a sequestration process to offset designated emergency spending. For any direct or discretionary emergency spending, the OMB Director must issue a sequestration order on October 1 of the subsequent fiscal year and for the four following fiscal years. Each annual sequestration must reduce total budgetary resources by one-fifth of the original emergency spending amount, ensuring full offset over five years. These reductions are applied to the same type of spending (discretionary or direct) as the original emergency appropriation, and the Director must provide written notification to Congress detailing the sequestration order and affected accounts. The bill stipulates that, with specific exceptions, no account is exempt from these uniform rate reductions across all subject programs and activities. However, programs such as Social Security , Medicare , national defense (budget function 050), and all Department of Veterans Affairs programs are explicitly exempt from sequestration. Furthermore, any legislative measure containing emergency spending must include a detailed justification explaining why the spending is necessary and meets the definitions of "emergency" and "unanticipated" as per existing budget law. This justification must be included in committee reports or published in the Congressional Record before House consideration.
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Timeline
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2661)
Introduced in House
Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on 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.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H2661)