Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2023—Information for Legislation Enacted Through January 5, 2023
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CBO reports annually on programs whose authorizations of appropriations have already expired or will expire. This information covers legislation enacted through January 5, 2023. A full report will be issued in the spring.
Authorizations of appropriations are provisions of law that authorize funds to be provided through a future appropriation law to carry out a program or function; they differ from other authorizations (sometimes called enabling or organic statutes), which create a federal agency, establish a federal program, prescribe a federal function, or provide for a particular federal obligation or expenditure within a program. Authorizations of appropriations also differ from the actual appropriations, which provide funding.
Section 202(e)(3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 requires that the Congressional Budget Office report to the Congress by January 15 of each year on the following:
All programs and activities whose authorizations of appropriations will expire during the current year, and
All programs and activities funded for the current year whose authorizations of appropriations have expired.
This data file includes a spreadsheet cataloging every explicit authorization of appropriations in CBO’s Legislative Classification System (LCS); it also includes instructions for sorting the data and a glossary of relevant terms. The spreadsheet specifies the date when each authorization expired or is set to expire and the amount authorized to be appropriated in the last fiscal year covered by that authorization. The most recent public law analyzed for this spreadsheet is the last act to be enrolled by the 117th Congress—an act to amend the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act to improve the program, and for other purposes (Public Law 117-362)—which was enacted on January 5, 2023.
Because CBO is still analyzing appropriation legislation for fiscal year 2023, this spreadsheet does not associate any appropriations with expired authorizations. It is an update to the version posted on January 13, 2023 (which covered laws enacted through September 30, 2022) and includes information about explicit authorizations of appropriations contained in all legislation enrolled as of the end of the 117th Congress. CBO will post a final updated spreadsheet when the agency publishes Expired and Expiring Authorizations of Appropriations: Fiscal Year 2023 in the spring. That report and updated spreadsheet will associate fiscal year 2023 appropriations with expired authorizations.