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No Budget, No Pay Act

To provide that the salaries of Members of a House of Congress will be held in escrow if that House has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year by April 15.

Introduced Jan 3, 2025

Latest action (Jan 3, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Referred to
Committee on House Administration
Policy area
Economics and Public Finance
Issues
Economy & Taxes
Legislative subjects (5)
Budget deficits and national debtBudget processCongressional oversightGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementMembers of Congress

Summary
  • Requires that if a House of Congress has not agreed to a budget resolution by April 15, all compensation to Members of that House shall be deposited in an escrow account beginning April 16.
  • Provides that escrowed compensation shall be released upon the earlier of the House agreeing to a budget resolution or the last day of the Congress.
  • Requires that standard tax withholding and remittance procedures apply to compensation held in escrow.
  • Requires that any compensation remaining in escrow on the last day of Congress be released to Members to comply with constitutional limitations on varying Congressional compensation.
  • Applies to fiscal year 2026 and each succeeding fiscal year.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
3 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Robert J. Wittman’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $103,150
  • ES3 $23,200
  • EAW GROUP LLC $16,600
  • ALTRIA GROUP INC. $16,500
  • CACI $15,255

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Robert J. Wittman → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. · house
  2. Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House

More bills on these subjects (8)

Other bills that carry the most legislative subjects in common with this one (topical discovery — distinct from the procedural related bills above).

  • HRES 5 — Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Nineteenth Congress, and for other purposes. (shares 5 subjects)
  • HR 113 — Budget Process Enhancement Act (shares 5 subjects)
  • S 2732 — Bonuses for Cost-Cutters Act of 2025 (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 7006 — Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026 (shares 4 subjects)
  • S 45 — Balanced Budget Accountability Act (shares 4 subjects)
  • HR 4464 — Preventive Health Savings Act (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 9770 — Continuing Appropriations Act, 2027 (shares 3 subjects)
  • HR 7147 — Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026. (shares 3 subjects)

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 113 — Budget Process Enhancement Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 209 — Inaction Has Consequences Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HR 5738 — No Budget, No Pay Act · Introduced Oct 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • HR 5755 — No Budget, No Pay Act · Introduced Oct 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 88 — No Budget, No Pay Act · Introduced Jan 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 62%
  • HRES 1164 — Directing Members required to reimburse the Treasury for payments related to certain claims to appear before the Clerk for public disclosure of the reasons for the reimbursement. · Introduced Apr 13, 2026 · Cong. 119 58%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 3, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 3, 2025

Mr. Wittman introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

A BILL

To provide that the salaries of Members of a House of Congress will be held in escrow if that House has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year by April 15.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “No Budget, No Pay Act”.

SEC. 2. HOLDING SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN ESCROW UPON FAILURE TO AGREE TO BUDGET RESOLUTION.

(a) Holding Salaries in Escrow.—

(1) In general.—If by April 15, a House of Congress has not agreed to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during the period described in paragraph

(2) the payroll administrator of that House of Congress shall deposit in an escrow account all payments otherwise required to be made during such period for the compensation of Members of Congress who serve in that House of Congress, and shall release such payments to such Members only upon the expiration of such period.

(2) Period described.—With respect to a House of Congress, the period described in this paragraph is the period which begins on April 16 and ends on the earlier of—

(A) the day on which the House of Congress agrees to a concurrent resolution on the budget for the next fiscal year pursuant to section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; or

(B) the last day of the Congress.

(3) Withholding and remittance of amounts from payments held in escrow.—The payroll administrator shall provide for the same withholding and remittance with respect to a payment deposited in an escrow account under paragraph (1) that would apply to the payment if the payment were not subject to paragraph (1).

(4) Release of amounts at end of the congress.—In order to ensure that this section is carried out in a manner that shall not vary the compensation of Senators or Representatives in violation of the twenty-seventh article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the payroll administrator of a House of Congress shall release for payments to Members of that House of Congress any amounts remaining in any escrow account under this section on the last day of the Congress.

(5) Role of secretary of the treasury.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the payroll administrators of the Houses of Congress with such assistance as may be necessary to enable the payroll administrators to carry out this section.

(b) Treatment of Delegates as Members.—In this section, the term “Member of Congress” includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress.

(c) Payroll Administrator Defined.—In this section, the “payroll administrator” of a House of Congress means—

(1) in the case of the House of Representatives, the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer who is designated by the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out this section; and

(2) in the case of the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate, or an employee of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate who is designated by the Secretary to carry out this section.

(d) Effective Date.—This Act shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2026 and each succeeding fiscal year. <all>

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