About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

H.R. 1656, Secret Service Improvements Act of 2016 1 (March 3, 2016)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo2785 and id is 1 raw text is: 


                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

0                             COST ESTIMATE
                                                                    March 3, 2016


                                  H.R. 1656
                  Secret Service Improvements Act of 2016

          As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
                   and Governmental Affairs on February 10, 2016


CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 1656 would increase spending subject to
appropriation by less than $500,000 annually. Because enacting H.R. 1656 would affect
direct spending and revenues, pay-as-you-go procedures apply, but CBO estimates that any
such effects would be negligible. CBO also estimates that enacting the legislation would
not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive
10-year periods beginning in 2027.

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. Because CBO expects that
the legislation would apply to a relatively small number of offenders, 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.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most