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2 U.S.C. § 684 — Proposed deferrals of budget authority
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**(a) Transmittal of special message** Whenever the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or agency of the United States, or any officer or employee of the United States proposes to defer any budget authority provided for a specific purpose or project, the President shall transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate a special message specifying—
(1) the amount of the budget authority proposed to be deferred;
(2) any account, department, or establishment of the Government to which such budget authority is available for obligation, and the specific projects or governmental functions involved;
(3) the period of time during which the budget authority is proposed to be deferred;
(4) the reasons for the proposed deferral, including any legal authority invoked to justify the proposed deferral;
(5) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the proposed deferral; and
(6) all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to or bearing upon the proposed deferral and the decision to effect the proposed deferral, including an analysis of such facts, circumstances, and considerations in terms of their application to any legal authority, including specific elements of legal authority, invoked to justify such proposed deferral, and to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed deferral upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget authority is provided.
A special message may include one or more proposed deferrals of budget authority. A deferral may not be proposed for any period of time extending beyond the end of the fiscal year in which the special message proposing the deferral is transmitted to the House and the Senate.
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**(a) Transmittal of special message** Whenever the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or agency of the United States, or any officer or employee of the United States proposes to defer any budget authority provided for a specific purpose or project, the President shall transmit to the House of Representatives and the Senate a special message specifying—
(1) the amount of the budget authority proposed to be deferred;
(2) any account, department, or establishment of the Government to which such budget authority is available for obligation, and the specific projects or governmental functions involved;
(3) the period of time during which the budget authority is proposed to be deferred;
(4) the reasons for the proposed deferral, including any legal authority invoked to justify the proposed deferral;
(5) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the proposed deferral; and
(6) all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to or bearing upon the proposed deferral and the decision to effect the proposed deferral, including an analysis of such facts, circumstances, and considerations in terms of their application to any legal authority, including specific elements of legal authority, invoked to justify such proposed deferral, and to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed deferral upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget authority is provided.
A special message may include one or more proposed deferrals of budget authority. A deferral may not be proposed for any period of time extending beyond the end of the fiscal year in which the special message proposing the deferral is transmitted to the House and the Senate.
**(b) Consistency with legislative policy** Deferrals shall be permissible only—
(1) to provide for contingencies;
(2) to achieve savings made possible by or through changes in requirements or greater efficiency of operations; or
(3) as specifically provided by law.
No officer or employee of the United States may defer any budget authority for any other purpose.
**(c) Exception** The provisions of this section do not apply to any budget authority proposed to be rescinded or that is to be reserved as set forth in a special message required to be transmitted under [section 683 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section683&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Transmittal of special message** Whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including the termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), or whenever all or part of budget authority provided for only one fiscal year is to be reserved from obligation for such fiscal year, the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message specifying—
(1) the amount of budget authority which he proposes to be rescinded or which is to be so reserved;
(2) any account, department, or establishment of the Government to which such budget authority is available for obligation, and the specific project or governmental functions involved;
(3) the reasons why the budget authority should be rescinded or is to be so reserved;
(4) to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary effect of the proposed rescission or of the reservation; and
(5) all facts, circumstances, and considerations relating to or bearing upon the proposed rescission or the reservation and the decision to effect the proposed rescission or the reservation, and to the maximum extent practicable, the estimated effect of the proposed rescission or the reservation upon the objects, purposes, and programs for which the budget authority is provided.
**(b) Requirement to make available for obligation** Any amount of budget authority proposed to be rescinded or that is to be reserved as set forth in such special message shall be made available for obligation unless, within the prescribed 45-day period, the Congr
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For purposes of sections 682 to 688 of this title—
(1) “deferral of budget authority” includes—
(A) withholding or delaying the obligation or expenditure of budget authority (whether by establishing reserves or otherwise) provided for projects or activities; or
(B) any other type of Executive action or inaction which effectively precludes the obligation or expenditure of budget authority, including authority to obligate by contract in advance of appropriations as specifically authorized by law;
(2) “Comptroller General” means the Comptroller General of the United States;
(3) “rescission bill” means a bill or joint resolution which only rescinds, in whole or in part, budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message transmitted by the President under [section 683 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section683&num=0&edition=prelim), and upon which the Congress completes action before the end of the first period of 45 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after the date on which the President’s message is received by the Congress;
(4) “impoundment resolution” means a resolution of the House of Representatives or the Senate which only expresses its disapproval of a proposed deferral of budget authority set forth in a special message transmitted by the President under [section 684 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section684&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(5) continuity of a session of the Congress shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain shall be excluded in the computation of the 45-day period
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**(a) Delivery to House and Senate** Each special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title shall be transmitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate on the same day, and shall be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Representatives if the House is not in session, and to the Secretary of the Senate if the Senate is not in session. Each special message so transmitted shall be referred to the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Each such message shall be printed as a document of each House.
**(b) Delivery to Comptroller General** A copy of each special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title, shall be transmitted to the Comptroller General on the same day it is transmitted to the House of Representatives and the Senate. In order to assist the Congress in the exercise of its functions under section 683 or 684 of this title, the Comptroller General shall review each such message and inform the House of Representatives and the Senate as promptly as practicable with respect to—
(1) in the case of a special message transmitted under [section 683 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section683&num=0&edition=prelim), the facts surrounding the proposed rescission or the reservation of budget authority (including the probable effects thereof); and
(2) in the case of a special message transmitted under [section 684 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section684&num=0&edition=prelim), (A) the facts surrounding each proposed deferral of budget authority (including the probable effects thereof) and (B) whether or not (or to what extent), in his judgment, such proposed deferral is in accordance with existing st
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 685
§ 684. Proposed deferrals of budget authority
(a) Transmittal of special message
Whenever the President, the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget, the head of
any department or agency of the United States,
or any officer or employee of the United States
proposes to defer any budget authority provided
for a specific purpose or project, the President
shall transmit to the House of Representatives
and the Senate a special message specifying—
(1) the amount of the budget authority pro-
posed to be deferred;
(2) any account, department, or establish-
ment of the Government to which such budget
authority is available for obligation, and the
specific projects or governmental functions in-
volved;
(3) the period of time during which the budg-
et authority is proposed to be deferred;
(4) the reasons for the proposed deferral, in-
cluding any legal authority invoked to justify
the proposed deferral;
(5) to the maximum extent practicable, the
estimated fiscal, economic, and budgetary ef-
fect of the proposed deferral; and
(6) all facts, circumstances, and consider-
ations relating to or bearing upon the pro-
posed deferral and the decision to effect the
proposed deferral, including an analysis of
such facts, circumstances, and considerations
in terms of their application to any legal au-
thority, including specific elements of legal
authority, invoked to justify such proposed
deferral, and to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, the estimated effect of the proposed
deferral upon the objects, purposes, and pro-
grams for which the budget authority is pro-
vided.
A special message may include one or more pro-
posed deferrals of budget authority. A deferral
may not be proposed for any period of time ex-
tending beyo
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