{"format":1,"id":"118-hr-9716","congress":118,"number":"H.R. 9716","kind":"bill","group":"bills","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act","title_source":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","official_title":"To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office to provide baseline updates, and for other purposes.","titles":[{"type":"Official Title as Introduced","title":"To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Congressional Budget Office to provide baseline updates, and for other purposes."},{"type":"Short Titles from RFS (Referred to Senate) bill text","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Passed House","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Reported to House","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"},{"type":"Display Title","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"},{"type":"Short Title(s) as Introduced","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"}],"outcome":"passed_house","law_number":null,"introduced":"2024-09-20","chambers":{"house":{"status":"roll_call","date":"2024-12-11","vote":{"id":"118-2024-h499","question":"On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass","title":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act","result":"Passed","yea":407,"nay":0,"present":0,"not_voting":23,"source":"https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll499.xml"}},"senate":{"status":"na","date":null,"vote":null}},"president":{"status":"na","date":null},"vice_president_tie_breaker":null,"latest_action":{"text":"Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.","date":"2024-12-12"},"nominees":null,"amendments":[],"other_votes":[],"crs_summary":{"date":"2024-09-20","stage":"Introduced in House","blocks":[{"k":"h","t":"Increasing Baseline Updates Act"},{"k":"p","t":"This bill requires the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to submit to Congress at least two updates to its annual baseline. At least one of the updates must include the economic data used by CBO to calculate the update."},{"k":"p","t":"(A baseline is a projection of federal spending and receipts during a fiscal year under current law. Under current law, CBO is required to publish the baseline by February 15 of each year. While there is no statutory requirement for specific updates, CBO generally provides an update with its analysis of the President's annual budget request. It has also provided some updates during the summer, depending on the timing of the President's budget request.)"},{"k":"p","t":"The bill also requires the President to submit technical budget data to Congress on or before February 1 of each year. Currently, federal agencies provide the data to Congress as part of the President's budget request."}],"words":152},"summary":{"main_subject":{"text":"Directs the Congressional Budget Office to submit updates to its baseline to the House and Senate Budget Committees, and directs the President to submit technical budget data to Congress by February 1 each year.","cites":[{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HB6E934816FE14416A5427DC7030242D2"},{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HCDDFCE0092B14F679802FBBB2C14EB1C"}]},"core_areas":["Congressional Budget Office baseline updates","Presidential submission of technical budget data"],"what_it_does":[{"text":"Amends Section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to direct the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, to the extent practicable, to submit at least two updates to the baseline to the Committees on the Budget of the House of Representatives and the Senate.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HB6E934816FE14416A5427DC7030242D2"}},{"text":"Requires that at least one of the baseline updates include the economic data the Director used to calculate that update.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HB6E934816FE14416A5427DC7030242D2"}},{"text":"States that the new baseline-update paragraph does not limit the Director from providing any other update to the baseline during the year.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 2","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HB6E934816FE14416A5427DC7030242D2"}},{"text":"Amends section 1106 of title 31, United States Code, to require the President to submit technical budget data to Congress on or before February 1 of each calendar year.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HCDDFCE0092B14F679802FBBB2C14EB1C"}},{"text":"Specifies that the technical budget data cover the fiscal year beginning in the ensuing calendar year and include up-to-date estimates for current year and prior year data and credit reestimates for the current year.","cite":{"label":"Sec. 3","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh#HCDDFCE0092B14F679802FBBB2C14EB1C"}}],"unexpected":[],"version":{"type":"Engrossed in House","date":"2024-12-11","rule":"passed","href":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text/eh"},"current":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","approved":"2026-09-30","approved_by":"checks"},"sources":{"congress_gov":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716","text":"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9716/text"},"card":{"image":"card/item/118-hr-9716.png","v":"14d2c0b02a7f","alt":"Votes on Record. H.R. 9716, 118th Congress: Increasing Baseline Updates Act. House: 407 Yea, 0 Nay. Outcome: Passed House, 11 Dec 2024."}}