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HR 3619 104th Congress House Environmental Protection Agriculture and Food Balanced budgets Budget deficits Congress Congressional budget Conservation of natural resources Deficit reduction Economics and Public Finance Federal budgets Federal receipts and expenditures Government spending reductions Government trust funds Off-budget expenditures Public Lands and Natural Resources Soil conservation Water Resources Development Water conservation

To provide off-budget treatment for the land and water conservation fund.

Introduced: June 12, 1996 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 6 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 17, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.
Jun 14, 1996
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Jun 14, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Lands.
Jun 14, 1996
Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans.
Jun 12, 1996
Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committees on the Budget, and Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Jun 12, 1996
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Provides for off-budget treatment for the land and water conservation fund by prohibiting its receipts and disbursements from being counted in any of specified ways for purposes of: (1) the Federal budget as submitted by the President; (2) the congressional budget; or (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Exempts such trust fund from any general statutory budget limitation.

What's happening now June 17, 1996

Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Democratic 1
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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Jul 30, 1996
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3619: To provide off-budget treatment for the land and water conservation fund.. 104th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-3619/
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"H.R. 3619: To provide off-budget treatment for the land and water conservation fund.." 104th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-3619/.
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H.R. 3619, 104th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/104-HR-3619/.
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