HR 6482 112th Congress House Economics and Public Finance Accounting and auditing Budget deficits and national debt Budget process Congressional oversight Health care costs and insurance Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care

To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 respecting the scoring of preventive health savings.

Introduced: September 21, 2012 See on congress.gov

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Sep 21, 2012

Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

Sep 21, 2012

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon a request by the chairman or ranking minority member of either congressional budget committee, to determine if a proposed measure would result in reductions in budget outlays in budgetary outyears through the use of preventive health and preventive health services.

Requires CBO, if the measure would result in such substantial reductions, to include in any CBO projection a description and estimate of such reductions and a description of the basis for such conclusions.

Authorizes CBO to prepare a budget projection that includes some or all of the budgetary outyears.

What's happening now September 21, 2012

Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.

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