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1 Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2019 1 (March 2019)

handle is hein.congrec/cboexexauth0001 and id is 1 raw text is: MARCH 2019 Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2019 Authorizations ofappropriations are provisions of law that authorize funds to be provided through a future appro- priation law to carry out a program or function. They are different from appropriations, which generally provide funding once those authorizations are in place. Each year, the Congressional Budget Office reports to the Congress on the following: * All programs and activities funded for the current fiscal year for which the authorizations of appropriations have expired, and * All 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 section 202(e) (3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344).' Ordinarily, CBO would 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 (Deficit Control Act, P.L. 99-177). (The Deficit Control Act amended the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to include the requirement for this report.) The stated purpose of this report is to help Congress use the early months of the year to adopt authorizing legislation that must be in place before the regular appropriation bills can be considered. have published the current edition by January 15, 2019. However, at that time only 5 of the 12 annual appropri- ation bills had been enacted. At the request of the House and Senate Committees on the Budget, CBO delayed publication until the agency could fully account for the funding provided in all 12 appropriation bills, the last of which was enacted on February 15, 2019, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 (P.L. 116-6).2 As of that date, CBO had identified 971 authorizations of appropriations that expired before the beginning of fiscal year 2019 that had not been overtaken by subsequent legislation. By CBO's estimate, at least $307 billion has been appropriated for fiscal year 2019 for the agencies, programs, or functions covered by those authorizations. The Role of Authorizations The term authorization is used to describe two types of laws. The first are enabling statutes (sometimes called organic statutes), which create a federal agency, estab- lish a federal program, prescribe a federal function, or provide for a particular federal obligation or expenditure within a program. Such an authorization may allow a federal agency, program, or function to continue 2. See Congressional Budget Office, CBO to Delay Release of Report on Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations, CBO Blog (January 23, 2019), www.cbo.gov/ publication/54939. Notes: All years referred to are federal fiscal years, which run from October 1 to September 30 and are designated by the calendar year in which they end. Amounts shown in the text and tables are in nominal (current year) dollars and may not sum to totals because of rounding.

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