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handle is hein.crs/govcgxv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FF.ri E~$~ & Updated May 2, 2018 Farm Bill Primer: Programs Without Baseline Beyond FY2018 The 2014 farm bill (the Agricultural Act of 2014, P.L. 113- 79) authorized $489 billion of mandatory spending over FY2014-FY2018. It generally expires at the end of FY2018. From a budgetary perspective, many of these programs are assumed to continue beyond their authorization. That is, they have a baseline beyond the end of the farm bill. Having a baseline essentially gives programs built-in future funding if policymakers decide that the programs should continue, or, if not, the baseline can be reallocated to other programs or used as an offset for deficit reduction. However, a subset of programs that received mandatory funding in the 2014 farm bill does not have a baseline beyond the end of the farm bill. These are referred to as farm bill programs without a baseline and do not have assured future funding. Reauthorization in the next farm bill would have a positive score (cost) and likely need to be offset by reductions elsewhere. Generally, a program with estimated mandatory spending in the last year of its authorization will be assumed to continue in the baseline as if there were no change in policy and it did not expire. Other programs, though, are not assumed to continue in the baseline, because they have mandatory spending less than a minimum $50 million scoring threshold in the last year of the farm bill or were not given baseline to continue by the authorizing committees. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects future government spending in its budget baselines but has not specifically published a list of expiring farm bill programs without a continuing baseline. To compile this list, CRS analyzed the CBO score of the 2014 farm bill, the statutory text of the law, and current CBO baseline projection, looking for programs that received mandatory funding but do not have baseline beyond FY2018 (Figure 1, Table 1). Figure I. 2014 Farm Bill Programs Without a Budget Baseline After FY2018 Milons, FY2014 FY2018 $51$ SK.,_ 5200 $250 .\. .k................... :r: : mn.. : Zt e Ws'.::... ........................:: :: : :: : :: :: : :: : :: :: : :: : :: :: : ::: :: :: : ::: ::: ........::: ::.......................................:: :::: ::: :::: :: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.::::::::::::::::..............:................::...............i~ii~ii~ii~ii~ii~ii~ ...:::::.......................:::::::::::::::::::::::::.......................::::::::::::::::::::::::......................................... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Source: Compiled by CRS using the text of P.L. I 13-79; the CBO score of the Agricultural Act of 2014, Table 4, Detailed Effects on Direct Spending, January 28, 2014; and the CBO Baseline Projection for USDA Mandatory Farm Programs, April 2018. .O 'T gognpq ' -p\qm ggmm g , q 'S a X 11LULKWALiN,

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