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Legislation Enacted in the 113th Congress That Will Affect Mandatory Spending or Revenues 1 (March 2015)

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                                          MARCH 2015





     Legislation Enacted in the

 113th Congress That Will Affect

Mandatory Spending or Revenues


This report summarizes the Congressional Budget
Office's estimates of the budgetary effects of laws enacted
in the 113th Congress that will affect mandatory spend-
ing or revenues. Those laws were enacted in calendar
years 2013 and 2014.

Table 1 includes legislation that was enacted in the first
session of that Congress and shows CBO's estimates of
budgetary effects for fiscal years 2013 through 2023.
According to CBO's estimates, those laws will increase
budget deficits in fiscal years 2013 through 2016 and
will decrease deficits in fiscal years 2017 through 2023.
All told, CBO estimated that those laws will reduce
federal budget deficits by about $76 billion over the
2013-2023 period.

Table 2 includes legislation enacted in the second session
and, in most cases, shows the agency's estimates for fiscal
years 2014 through 2024. According to CBO's estimates,
those laws will increase budget deficits in fiscal years
2014, 2015, and 2023, and will decrease deficits in all of
the other years through 2024. In total, CBO estimated
that those laws will add about $24 billion to budget
deficits over the 2014-2024 period (excluding any 2024
effects from one law for which CBO's estimate did not
encompass that year).

Those budget windows are consistent with the ones used
in CBO's cost estimates that were provided to both the
House and Senate Budget Committees at the time each
law was enacted. The tables exclude enacted legislation
with insignificant effects on mandatory spending-


namely, those bills with estimated effects between
-$500,000 and +$500,000 in any year or over the
11 -year period.

The laws are listed in the order in which they were
enacted. Each entry provides the number of the
underlying bill that was considered by the Congress.
It also includes a link to a relevant CBO cost estimate
whenever possible. However, the amounts in a referenced
cost estimate may differ from the final estimates shown in
the table because legislative provisions or CBO's analysis
may have changed between the time when CBO initially
provided the cost estimate and when the bill was
enacted into law.

Ths Congressinal Budget Office report was prepated at the
request of the Chairmen of the House and Senate Budget
Committees and Senator Rob Portman. in keeping with
CBO's mandate to provide objective, impartial analysis, the
report includes no recommendations.
J'nell Blanco Suchy prepared the report, with guidance from
Peter Fontaine, Theresa Gullo, and Janet Airis.
Robert Sunshine reviewed the report. An electronic version is
I available on CBO's website (www.cbo.gov/publication/
50052).


Douglas W Elmendorf
Director

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