S.Amdt. 3377

1. Adds SEC. __. BUDGET OFFSET wherever appropriate

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. __. BUDGET OFFSET.

   Inserted: (a) In General.--

   Inserted: (1) Finding.--Congress finds that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that--

   Inserted: (A) this Act, the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013, will spend only 15 percent of the budget authority provided in this Act in fiscal year 2013; and

   Inserted: (B) total outlays flowing from this Act will equal $8,974,000,000 for fiscal year 2013.

   Inserted: (2) Budget authority limit.--The total amount provided to chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of this Act shall be provided based on the Congressional Budget Office's cost estimate findings, such that--

   Inserted: (A) total budget authority for the Act shall not exceed $8,974,000,000;

   Inserted: (B) total budget authority provided for Chapter 1 shall not exceed $81,000,000;

   Inserted: (C) total budget authority provided for Chapter 2 shall not exceed $192,000,000;

   Inserted: (D) total budget authority provided for Chapter 3 shall not exceed $42,000,000;

   Inserted: (E) total budget authority provided for Chapter 4 shall not exceed $673,000,000;

   Inserted: (F) total budget authority provided for Chapter 5 shall not exceed $437,000,000;

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   Inserted: (G) total budget authority provided for Chapter 6 shall not exceed $6,681,000,000;

   Inserted: (H) total budget authority provided for Chapter 7 shall not exceed $147,000,000;

   Inserted: (I) total budget authority provided for Chapter 8 shall not exceed $85,000,000;

   Inserted: (J) total budget authority provided for Chapter 9 shall not exceed $23,000,000; and

   Inserted: (K) total budget authority provided for Chapter 10 shall not exceed $613,000,000.

   Inserted: (3) Application of budget authority reduction.--Of the total amount reduced in this Act as subject to paragraph (2), the allocation of such reductions among the accounts and programs shall be determined by the Director of Office of Management and Budget.

   Inserted: (b) Offsetting Amounts.--

   Inserted: (1) In general.--There is rescinded for fiscal year 2013 any unobligated balances in an amount equal to $8,974,000,000 of the budget authority provided for fiscal year 2013 of any discretionary account in title II--United States Agency for International Development, title III--Bilateral economic assistance, and title IV--International security assistance accounts and programs as provided by the continuing appropriations resolution of 2013 for the Department of State, Foreign Operations and Related Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-175).

   Inserted: (2) Limit.--Of the accounts and programs included in paragraph (1), the rescission amounts shall not reduce the combined aggregate budget authority of those accounts and programs below $5,000,000,000 for all of fiscal year 2013.

   Inserted: (3) Excess recovered.--The amount of rescission of budget authority in paragraphs (1) and (2) that exceeds the level of unobligated balances in those paragraphs shall be rescinded, on a pro rata basis, from the budget authority provided for fiscal year 2013 from any remaining discretionary accounts in any fiscal year 2013 appropriations Act (except the accounts and programs as provided by the continuing appropriations resolution of 2013 for the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Appropriations Act, 2012).

   Inserted: (c) Application of Rescissions.--Of the total amount rescinded subject to subsection (b), including paragraph (2) the allocation of such rescissions among the accounts or programs as specified in subsection (b)(1), shall be determined by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

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