Rules Committee Print 116-44, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (H.R. 1865)

Divisions A through H of Rules Committee Print 116-44 would provide appropriations and authorities for the remainder of fiscal year 2020 for the agencies covered by 8 of the 12 annual appropriation acts. In 2020, most discretionary budget authority is subject to limits (or caps) established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25), as modified. Separate caps exist for defense funding (in the law, revised security), which is budget function 050, and for nondefense funding (revised nonsecurity), which encompasses all other budget functions. The Budget Control Act also provides for certain adjustments to those caps. Table 1 delineates CBO’s estimates of funding that is constrained by the 2020 caps on defense and nondefense funding and the amounts that result in adjustments to those caps.

Table 2 displays CBO’s estimate of changes in direct spending under divisions I through P of Rules Committee Print 116-44, which would extend and modify several federal programs. Title X of division I would specify requirements for the budgetary treatment of those divisions. Consistent with that title, and at the direction of the House and Senate Committees on the Budget, divisions I through P are considered to be authorizing legislation rather than appropriation legislation.