Sec. 301. Zero-based budgeting
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Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is amended— by striking subsection (a)(2) and inserting the following: consistent with subsection (i), a budget for each department and agency which contains the following information— A description of each activity for which the department or agency receives an appropriation in the current fiscal year or for which the department or agency requests an appropriation for the budget year. The legal basis for each activity. For each activity, three alternative funding levels for the budget year, and a summary of the priorities that would be accomplished within each level, and the additional increments of value that would be added by the higher funding levels.
At least two of these funding levels shall be below the funding level for the current fiscal year. For each activity, one or more measures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness. ; and by adding at the end the following: As soon as practicable, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall publish guidelines to carry out subsection (a)(2). The guidelines shall require that the baseline budget of each department or agency is assumed to be zero and each proposed expenditure shall be justified as if it were a new expenditure. .