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handle is hein.congrec/cboexap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,. FEBRUARY 2020 Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2020 Authorizations ofappropriations are provisions of law that authorize funds to be provided through a future appro- priation act to carry out a program or function. They are different from appropriations, which provide funding. Each year, the Congressional Budget Office reports to the Congress on the following: Programs and activities for which the authorizations of appropriations have expired before the current fiscal year, and Programs and activities for which the authorizations of appropriations will expire during the current fiscal year. The requirement for this CBO report is specified in sec- tion 202 (e) (3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974.1 Ordinarily, CBO would have published this report by January 15, 2020. However, because the 12 regu- lar full-year appropriation bills were not enacted until December 20, 2019, CBO did not have sufficient time to complete the required analysis before the statutory 1. See House Report 99-433 (December 10, 1985), p. 114, the conference report accompanying the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, which amended the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to include the requirement for this report. The stated purpose is to help Congress use the early months of the year to adopt authorizing legislation which must be in place before the thirteen regular appropriation bills can be considered. (Currently, there are 12 regular appropriation bills.) deadline. With the agreement of the House and Senate Budget Committees, CBO delayed publication until the agency could fully analyze the funding provided in the appropriation bills for fiscal year 2020. This edition of the report reflects legislation passed by the Congress during the first session of the 116th Congress, which ended on January 3, 2020.2 Some of that legislation became law after that date. The latest public law analyzed for this report was the Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019 (Public Law 116-108), which was signed into law by the President on January 24, 2020. CBO estimates that 1,046 authorizations stemming from 272 laws expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2020. In particular: * About 70 percent of those authorizations specified amounts of annual funding-totaling $169 billion 2. The information summarized in this report is drawn from CBO's Legislative Classification System (LCS), a database of nonpermanent and explicit authorizations of appropriations. The underlying data are posted with the report on CBO's website. That supplemental data file consists of instructions for sorting the data, a spreadsheet, and a glossary of relevant terms. The spreadsheet catalogs every authorization of appropriations contained in CBO's LCS. The file also lists funding amounts provided for fiscal year 2020 for authorizations of appropriations that expired on or before September 30, 2019. Notes: All years referred to in this report are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30 and are designated by the calendar year in which they end. Numbers in the text and tables may not add up to totals because of rounding.

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