This bill adds a new scoring rule to Section 202 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. It directs the Director named in Section 202 to determine, when asked by certain congressional committee leaders, whether proposed legislation would produce net reductions in budget outlays in long-term future years through the use of preventive health care. If the Director finds such potential savings, the Director must include a description and an estimate of those reductions in any projection about the proposal, and explain the basis for the estimate. The Director is also allowed to prepare budget projections that include some or all of the long-term outyears even if those years go beyond the usual projection windows. Any estimate prepared under this rule must be used only as a supplementary estimate and cannot be used to determine compliance with the Congressional Budget Act or other budget enforcement controls. The bill defines "budgetary outyears" as the two consecutive 10-year periods that begin with the first fiscal year that is 10 years after the current fiscal year. It defines "preventive health care" broadly and lists types of evidence that can support estimates, including epidemiological projection models, clinical trials, observational human studies, longitudinal studies, and meta-analyses.
If congressional leaders ask for it, the Director will look at whether a proposal that promotes preventive health care could lower federal spending far in the future. The Director must describe and estimate any such long-term savings and explain how those estimates were reached. Those long-term estimates will be available as extra information for lawmakers, but the estimates cannot be used to meet or change budget enforcement rules.
No publicly available information on specific costs or savings amounts. The bill changes how long-term savings are estimated and reported; it does not itself authorize new spending or provide numeric cost figures.
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