Sec. 104. Comprehensive cross-cutting biodefense budget analysis
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In order to enhance strategic planning, eliminate redundancies, identify capability gaps, and provide for greater transparency, the Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall transmit to the appropriate congressional committees, concurrent with the submission of the President’s annual budget to the Congress, a comprehensive cross-cutting biodefense budget analysis that delineates and integrates the biodefense expenditure requests for the departments and agencies headed by the officials listed in subsection (c).
The comprehensive cross-cutting biodefense budget analysis shall provide a detailed, separate analysis, by budget function, by department or agency, and by initiative area (as determined by the Administration), for the prior fiscal year, the current fiscal year, and the fiscal years for which the budget is submitted, identifying the amounts of gross and net appropriations or obligational authority and outlays that contribute to biodefense, with separate displays for mandatory and discretionary amounts, including— summaries of the total amount of such appropriations or obligational authority and outlays requested for biodefense; an estimate of the current service levels of biodefense spending; and an indication of how the Federal activities or accounts covered by the analysis support the activities delineated in the National Biodefense Plan under section 102(2).
With respect to subparagraphs
(A)through
(C)of paragraph (1), amounts shall be provided by account for each program, project, and activity. Each official listed in paragraph
(2)shall, by not later than 30 days before submitting the annual appropriations request for the agency under section 1108 of title 31, United States Code, submit to the Special Assistant— the proposed appropriations request; and a progress report on how the department or agency under the official’s authority agency has met the responsibilities of the official under the National Biodefense Plan under section 102. The officials referred to in paragraph
(1)are— the Secretary of Agriculture; the Secretary of Commerce; the Secretary of Defense; the Secretary of Energy; the Secretary of Health and Human Services; the Secretary of Homeland Security; the Secretary of State; the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; the Attorney General; the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; the Director of the National Science Foundation; the Postmaster General of the United States; and heads of other Federal departments and agencies as considered appropriate by the Special Assistant. Periodically, but at least annually, the Special Assistant for Biodefense shall consult with the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Budget Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Appropriations Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Congressional Budget Office.