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H.R. 1656, Secret Service Improvements Act of 2015 1 (July 31, 2015)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2424 and id is 1 raw text is: CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE July 31, 2015 H.R. 1656 Secret Service Improvements Act of 2015 As passed by the House ofRepresentatives on July 27, 2015 CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1656 would increase spending subject to appropriation by less than $500,000 annually. In addition, CBO estimates that enacting H.R. 1656 would affect direct spending and revenues, so pay-as-you-go procedures apply, but we estimate that any such effects would be insignificant. H.R. 1656 would authorize the United States Secret Service to hire additional law enforcement personnel and construct facilities for training those individuals. The act also would direct the agency to establish an office to provide ethics training for employees. According to the Secret Service, the agency is already hiring the personnel and constructing the facilities that would be specifically authorized by the act. Consequently, implementing H.R. 1656 would not affect spending for those activities. Based on information from the Secret Service, CBO estimates that it would cost less than $500,000 annually to operate the ethics office required by the legislation; such spending would be subject to the availability of appropriated funds. H.R. 1656 also would broaden the coverage of current laws against accessing restricted buildings and threatening a Vice President of the United States. CBO expects that the legislation would apply to a relatively small number of offenders, however, so any increase in costs for law enforcement, court proceedings, or prison operations would not be significant. Because those prosecuted and convicted under H.R. 1656 could be subject to criminal fines, the federal government might collect additional fines under the act. Criminal fines are recorded as revenues, deposited in the Crime Victims Fund, and are available to spend without further appropriation action. CBO expects that any additional revenues and subsequent direct spending would not be significant because of the small number of cases likely to be affected. H.R. 1656 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Mark Grabowicz. The estimate was approved by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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