OMB
COST ESTIMATE
FOR PAY-AS-YOU-GO CALCULATIONS
Report No: 562
Date: 12/13/2001
- LAW NUMBER:
P.L.107-56 (H.R. 3162)
- BILL TITLE:
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required
to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act
- BILL PURPOSE:
Enhances law enforcement tools available to Federal agencies to investigate,
deter, and punish terrorist acts in and outside the United States.
- OMB ESTIMATE:
P.L.107-56 increases the benefit level for payments made by the Public
Safety Officer's Benefit Program. The Act makes the increase retroactive
to the beginning of 2001 and thus covers the payments for police and
fire personnel killed in the World Trade Center attacks. The Act also
provides authority to spend Crime Victims Fund balances beyond the previously
established cap for 2001 and makes changes to the spending pattern for
the fund in the future. Because OMB's baseline assumed all balances
in the Fund would be depleted during 2002, the change in future spending
pattern has no scoreable effect. In addition, the Act makes other changes,
including new penalties and fines, that have an insignificant effect
on receipts and outlays.
|
(Fiscal
years; in millions of dollars) |
|
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
Net
costs.................................... |
0 |
117 |
24 |
21 |
17 |
23 |
- CBO ESTIMATE:
|
(Fiscal
years; in millions of dollars) |
|
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
Net
costs.................................... |
0 |
104 |
-220 |
-174 |
173 |
271 |
The Commerce,
Justice, State Appropriations Act for 2002, which was signed after the
USA PATRIOT Act, placed a cap on Crime Victims Fund spending for 2002.
CBO scores the effect of the changes in the Crime Victims Fund versus
a baseline that incorporates the impact of the Appropriations Act.
- EXPLANATION
OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OMB AND CBO ESTIMATES:
Nearly
all of the difference between OMB and CBO estimates is the result of
different baseline assumptions for the Crime Victims Fund. OMB scores
against a baseline that reflects law at the time this Act became law.
CBO scores against a baseline that incorporates the effect of the Commerce,
Justice, State Appropriations Act that was subsequently signed by the
President.
- CUMULATIVE
EFFECT OF DIRECT SPENDING AND REVENUE LEGISLATION ENACTED TO DATE:
|
(Fiscal
years; in millions of dollars) |
|
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
Outlay
effect.............. |
5,503 |
16,763 |
20,298 |
21,035 |
22,088 |
7,436 |
Receipt
effect............ |
-69,501 |
-35,132 |
-84,624 |
-103,812 |
-104,966 |
-123,403 |
Net
costs.................... |
75,004 |
51,895 |
104,922 |
124,847 |
127,054 |
130,839 |
NOTE:
The cumulative effect of direct spending and revenue legislation enacted
to date is currently estimated to result in an end-of-session sequester.
The Administration looks forward to working with the Congress to ensure
that an unintended sequester does not occur.
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