§661c — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

Summary

Budgets must show the full cost of direct loan and loan guarantee programs starting in fiscal year 1992. The President’s budget must also list how much new direct loan activity or new loan guarantee commitments is planned for each spending request. New direct loans or new loan guarantees can only be made if an appropriations law gives budget authority in advance, sets a limit on funds for those costs, or otherwise authorizes them in an appropriations law. This rule does not apply to programs that are entitlements (for example, the guaranteed student loan program or the veterans’ home loan guaranty program) or to all Commodity Credit Corporation credit programs that existed on November 5, 1990. A loan or guarantee cannot be changed to increase its cost unless Congress provided budget authority first. When authority to make or change loans is used, that authority becomes budget authority equal to the estimated cost in the fiscal year it is used. The program account must record and transfer that amount to a financing account when loans are made or costs change. Any reestimates of costs for loans made in one year must be shown as a separate subaccount and have permanent indefinite authority. Money for running a loan or guarantee program must be shown as separate subaccounts inside the same budget account as the program costs.

Title 2, §661c

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(a)Beginning with fiscal year 1992, the President’s budget shall reflect the costs of direct loan and loan guarantee programs. The budget shall also include the planned level of new direct loan obligations or loan guarantee commitments associated with each appropriations request.

(b)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, new direct loan obligations may be incurred and new loan guarantee commitments may be made for fiscal year 1992 and thereafter only to the extent that—

(1)new budget authority to cover their costs is provided in advance in an appropriations Act;

(2)a limitation on the use of funds otherwise available for the cost of a direct loan or loan guarantee program has been provided in advance in an appropriations Act; or

(3)authority is otherwise provided in appropriation Acts.

(c)Subsections (b) and (e) shall not apply to a direct loan or loan guarantee program that—

(1)constitutes an entitlement (such as the guaranteed student loan program or the veterans’ home loan guaranty program); or

(2)all existing credit programs of the Commodity Credit Corporation on November 5, 1990.

(d)(1)The authority to incur new direct loan obligations, make new loan guarantee commitments, or modify outstanding direct loans (or direct loan obligations) or loan guarantees (or loan guarantee commitments) shall constitute new budget authority in an amount equal to the cost of the direct loan or loan guarantee in the fiscal year in which definite authority becomes available or indefinite authority is used. Such budget authority shall constitute an obligation of the credit program account to pay to the financing account.

(2)The outlays resulting from new budget authority for the cost of direct loans or loan guarantees described in paragraph (1) shall be paid from the credit program account into the financing account and recorded in the fiscal year in which the direct loan or the guaranteed loan is disbursed or its costs altered.

(3)All collections and payments of the financing accounts shall be a means of financing.

(e)An outstanding direct loan (or direct loan obligation) or loan guarantee (or loan guarantee commitment) shall not be modified in a manner that increases its costs unless budget authority for the additional cost has been provided in advance in an appropriations Act.

(f)When the estimated cost for a group of direct loans or loan guarantees for a given credit program made in a single fiscal year is reestimated in a subsequent year, the difference between the reestimated cost and the previous cost estimate shall be displayed as a distinct and separately identified subaccount in the credit program account as a change in program costs and a change in net interest. There is hereby provided permanent indefinite authority for these reestimates.

(g)All funding for an agency’s administration of a direct loan or loan guarantee program shall be displayed as distinct and separately identified subaccounts within the same budget account as the program’s cost.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 504 of Pub. L. 93–344, title V, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 322, was classified to section 1020a of former Title 31, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–258, § 5(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1068.

Amendments

1997—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 105–33, § 10117(b)(1), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “appropriations of budget authority to cover their costs are made in advance;”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 105–33, § 10117(b)(2), substituted “has been provided in advance in an appropriations Act” for “is enacted”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–33, § 10117(b)(3), substituted “Subsections (b) and (e)” for “Subsection (b)”. Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 105–33, § 10117(b)(4), substituted “modify outstanding direct loans (or direct loan obligations) or loan guarantees (or loan guarantee commitments)” for “directly or indirectly alter the costs of outstanding direct loans and loan guarantees”. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105–33, § 10117(b)(5), amended heading and text of subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “A direct loan obligation or loan guarantee commitment shall not be modified in a manner that increases its cost unless budget authority for the additional cost is appropriated, or is available out of existing appropriations or from other budgetary resources.”

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