Bill > HR2811

This bill, titled the "Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023," aims to limit federal spending, save taxpayer dollars, grow the economy, and reform regulations. It also includes provisions related to water quality certification and energy project improvements, and a limited increase to the debt ceiling. The bill covers fiscal years 2024 through 2033 for spending limits. Here are the major provisions: * **Discretionary Spending Limits:** Sets limits on discretionary spending for fiscal years 2024 through 2033, with specific dollar amounts allocated for each year. * **Rescission of Unobligated Funds:** Rescinds unobligated balances from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and certain provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act. * **Student Loan Relief:** Nullifies certain executive actions and rules related to federal student loans and limits the Secretary of Education's authority to propose or issue regulations and executive actions that would increase subsidy costs from loan modifications. * **Repeal of Green Tax Credits:** Repeals or modifies numerous tax credits related to renewable energy, clean vehicles, and energy efficiency, including credits for solar and wind facilities in low-income communities, zero-emission nuclear power, sustainable aviation fuel, clean hydrogen, nonbusiness energy property, residential clean energy, energy-efficient commercial buildings, new energy-efficient homes, clean vehicles, previously-owned clean vehicles, qualified commercial clean vehicles, and alternative fuel refueling property. * **Internal Revenue Service Funding:** Rescinds certain unobligated balances made available to the Internal Revenue Service from the Inflation Reduction Act. * **Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Reforms:** Recalibrates the caseload reduction credit, eliminates excess maintenance of effort spending in determining this credit, and modifies reporting of work outcomes. * **Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Reforms:** Adjusts the age-related exemption from work requirements for SNAP benefits and clarifies rules for exemption adjustments. * **Community Engagement Requirement for Medicaid:** Introduces a community engagement requirement for certain individuals to receive Medicaid benefits, defining what constitutes community engagement and outlining verification processes. * **Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2023:** Establishes a new process for congressional review of agency rulemaking, requiring joint resolutions of approval for major rules and providing procedures for congressional disapproval of nonmajor rules. It also mandates a GAO study on the economic costs of existing rules. * **Lower Energy Costs Act Provisions:** Includes numerous provisions aimed at increasing American energy production, exports, infrastructure, and critical minerals processing. These include: * Securing critical energy resource supply chains. * Protecting American energy production by prohibiting moratoriums on hydraulic fracturing unless authorized by Congress. * Promoting cross-border energy infrastructure by streamlining permitting for pipelines and electric transmission facilities and prohibiting the revocation of Presidential permits without an Act of Congress. * Repealing the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and the methane emissions and waste reduction incentive program for petroleum and natural gas systems. * Implementing flexible air permits and national security or energy security waivers for critical energy resource facilities. * Reforming federal land use planning and withdrawal processes to consider mineral resource assessments and economic impacts. * Expediting permitting for mining needs, including designating mining as a covered sector for federal permitting improvement purposes and establishing timelines for processing permits. * Ensuring consideration of uranium as a critical mineral and barring foreign bad actors from operating on federal lands. * Streamlining environmental reviews for energy projects, including for pipelines, gathering lines, and wildfire mitigation activities. * Modifying royalty rates and rental rates for onshore and offshore oil and gas leases. * Establishing revenue sharing for offshore wind projects. * **Water Quality Certification and Energy Project Improvement Act of 2023:** Amends Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify and streamline the water quality certification process for federal licenses and permits, including setting deadlines for decisions and defining applicable provisions for compliance. * **Increase in Debt Limit:** Suspends the debt ceiling through March 31, 2024, or until the debt reaches $1.5 trillion above the current limit, whichever comes first.