2 USC § 190f - General appropriation bills
(b)
Standard appropriation classification schedule
The Committees on Appropriations of the two Houses are authorized and directed, acting jointly, to develop a standard appropriation classification schedule which will clearly define in concise and uniform accounts the subtotals of appropriations asked for by agencies in the executive branch of the Government. That part of the printed hearings containing each such agency’s request for appropriations shall be preceded by such a schedule.
(c)
Nonconsideration if a provision reappropriates unexpended balances
No general appropriation bill or amendment thereto shall be received or considered in either House if it contains a provision reappropriating unexpended balances of appropriations; except that this provision shall not apply to appropriations in continuation of appropriations for public works on which work has commenced.
(b)
Standard appropriation classification schedule
The Committees on Appropriations of the two Houses are authorized and directed, acting jointly, to develop a standard appropriation classification schedule which will clearly define in concise and uniform accounts the subtotals of appropriations asked for by agencies in the executive branch of the Government. That part of the printed hearings containing each such agency’s request for appropriations shall be preceded by such a schedule.
(c)
Nonconsideration if a provision reappropriates unexpended balances
No general appropriation bill or amendment thereto shall be received or considered in either House if it contains a provision reappropriating unexpended balances of appropriations; except that this provision shall not apply to appropriations in continuation of appropriations for public works on which work has commenced.
Source
(Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, title I, § 139(a), (b), (c),60 Stat. 833; Pub. L. 91–510, title I, § 108(d),Oct. 26, 1970, 84 Stat. 1149.)
Partial Repeal
Section 2 (a), S. Res. 274, Ninety-sixth Congress, Nov. 14, 1979, provided in part that this section, insofar as it relates to the Senate, is repealed. See Standing Rules of the Senate.
Codification
Section constitutes subsections (a) to (c) ofsection
139 of act Aug. 2, 1946. Subsection (d) ofsection
139, which required the two Houses of Congress to make a study of existing permanent appropriations with a view to limiting the number thereof and to recommending what permanent appropriations should be discontinued, and of the disposition of funds resulting from the sale of Government property or services by all departments and agencies in the executive branch of the Government with a view to recommending a uniform system of control with respect to those funds, was omitted from the Code as being of a temporary character.
Amendments
1970—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 91–510repealed prohibition against consideration of any general appropriation bill in either House unless prior to such consideration printed committee hearings and reports on the bill have been available for at least three calendar days for the Members of the House considering the bill, which was incorporated in section
190a
(f) of this title.
Effective Date of 1970 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 91–510effective immediately prior to noon on Jan. 3, 1971, see section 601(1) ofPub. L. 91–510, set out as a note under section
72a of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Jan. 2, 1947, see section 142 of act Aug. 2, 1946.
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