S. 89 118th Congress Senate

No Budget, No Pay Act

Official title: A bill to provide that Members of Congress may not receive pay after October 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has not approved a concurrent resolution on… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to provide that Members of Congress may not receive pay after October 1 of any fiscal year in which Congress has not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the regular appropriations bills.

Introduced: January 25, 2023 See on congress.gov

Congress

Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps

Introduced

In committee

Reported out

Passed House

Passed Senate

To President

Became law

Jan 25, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Jan 25, 2023

Introduced in Senate

Ask about this bill AI · grounded in the bill text

Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.

AI answers can be imperfect; always confirm against the full bill text.

Latest action January 25, 2023

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

No Budget, No Pay Act

This bill prohibits Members of Congress from being paid in a fiscal year until both chambers approve the budget resolution and pass all regular appropriations bills for that fiscal year. Retroactive pay is prohibited for such a period.

Related & companion bills 1

Bill text 1 version

Introduced in Senate Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

Committees of jurisdiction 1

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 2

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
for NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · District of Columbia · 2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30)
NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION
for NATIONAL TAXPAYERS UNION · District of Columbia · 1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31)

Bodies those filers lobbied

Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
2 filings
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
2 filings
Defense, Dept of (DOD)
2 filings
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
2 filings
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
2 filings
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
2 filings
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
2 filings
Federal Reserve System
2 filings

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

Cosponsors 10