H.R. 6144: Accurate Accounting Act of 2016
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H.R. 6144: Accurate Accounting Act of 2016
114th Congress · introduced 2016-09-22 · Economics and Public Finance · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2016-09-22 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Graves, Tom [R-GA-14] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
Accurate Accounting Act of 2016
Plain summary
Accurate Accounting Act of 2016 This bill amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 and the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 to permit Social Security spending and revenues to be counted in the totals included in the congressional budget resolution and the President's budget. The bill amends the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) to prohibit increases in Social Security revenues or decreases in Social Security spending from being counted as savings for the purpose of PAYGO rules that restrict legislation that increases the deficit. (Under current law, the Social Security trust funds are off-budget and all budgetary effects are excluded from the budget totals and PAYGO calculations.) The President must submit a budget for each department and agency that includes: a description of each activity for which funds were appropriated for the current year or requested for the budget year, the legal basis for each activity, three alternative funding levels and the priorities that could be accomplished with each, and measures of cost efficiency and effectiveness for each activity. The Office of Management and Budget must publish guidelines to require: (1) the baseline budget of each department or agency to be assumed to be zero, and (2) each proposed expenditure to be justified as if it were new. The Government Accountability Office must revise a study of mandatory spending required under current law at least every five years.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
Accurate Accounting Act of 2016
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Tom [R-GA-14] · 0 cosponsors
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Words on this page, explained (6)
- Appropriation
- Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
- Bill
- A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
- Resolution
- A formal statement or decision by a legislative body. Simple resolutions often only express an opinion or set rules for one chamber; they do not become law.
- Rulemaking
- The process agencies use to write regulations that carry out laws passed by Congress or a legislature. Usually an agency publishes a proposed rule, takes public comments, then publishes a final rule.
- Securities
- Financial investments that can be bought and sold, such as stocks and bonds.
- Statute
- A written law passed by a legislature. A statute can be changed by a later law; changing a constitution needs an amendment.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-114hr6144.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/114/hr>
Record fed-us-cong114-hr6144 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong114 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong114