Permanent Authority in the United States

Permanent Authority in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Permanent Authority in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): Budget authority that is available as the result of previously enacted legislation and is available without further legislative action. For example, authority to retain and use offsetting receipts tends to be permanent authority. Such budget authority can be the result of substantive legislation or appropriation acts.

Guide to U.S. Federal Budget Timing of Legislative Action (Budget Process)

• Timing of Legislative Action
• Current Authority
• Permanent Authority

Resources

See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Permanent Authority)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)