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No Bias in the Baseline Act

To clarify that the baseline is based on current laws and the assumption of continuation of current levels of discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

Introduced Apr 22, 2026

Latest action (Apr 22, 2026) Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.

Referred to
Budget Committee
Policy area
Economics and Public Finance
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary

This bill modifies how the Congressional Budget Office calculates budget baselines, which are used to measure the fiscal impact of proposed legislation. It requires the baseline to be based on current laws and the assumption that discretionary spending levels will continue at current rates, without adjustments for inflation or other factors. The bill removes previous provisions that allowed for certain adjustments in baseline calculations, including adjustments for inflation. It also excludes emergency-designated spending and supplemental appropriations from baseline calculations. These changes affect how Congress measures the cost or savings of new legislation compared to current law.

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)

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • NULL $46,314
  • PYRAMID SOUND $19,800
  • GROWITZ EQUITY $13,200
  • SPECCHEM $13,200
  • ONYX EQUITY PARTNERS $13,200

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

Actions (2)
  1. Apr 22, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget. · senate
  2. Apr 22, 2026 Introduced in Senate

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 8569 — No Bias in the Baseline Act · Introduced Apr 29, 2026 · Cong. 119 91%
  • HR 6470 — Increasing Baseline Updates Act · Introduced Dec 4, 2025 · Cong. 119 72%
  • HR 8570 — Cost Estimate Clarity Act · Introduced Apr 29, 2026 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 3912 — Stop the Baseline Bloat Act of 2025 · Introduced Jun 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • S 4173 — Dollar-for-Dollar Deficit Reduction Act · Introduced Mar 24, 2026 · Cong. 119 63%
  • HRES 981 — Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should reduce and maintain the Federal unified budget deficit at or below 3 percent of gross domestic product. · Introduced Jan 7, 2026 · Cong. 119 59%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 22, 2026

Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget

A BILL

To clarify that the baseline is based on current laws and the assumption of continuation of current levels of discretionary appropriations, and for other purposes.

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 Bias in the Baseline Act”.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF BASELINE CALCULATION.

(a) In General.—Section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907) is amended—

(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following:

“(a) In General.—For any budget year, the baseline refers to a projection, based on current laws and the assumption of continuation of current levels of discretionary appropriations, of current-year levels of new budget authority, outlays, revenues, and the surplus or deficit into the budget year and the outyears based on laws enacted through the applicable date.”;

(2) in subsection (b)—

(A) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:

“(1) In general.—Laws providing or creating direct spending and receipts are assumed to operate in the manner specified in those laws for each such year.”;

(B) by striking paragraph (2); and

(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph

(2); and

(3) in subsection (c)—

(A) in paragraph (1), in the second sentence, by striking “current year” and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting “excluding resources designated as an emergency requirement and any resources provided in supplemental appropriation laws.”;

(B) by striking paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5);

(C) by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph

(2); and

(D) by adding at the end the following:

“(3) No adjustment for inflation.—No adjustment shall be made for inflation or for any other factor.”.

(b) Conforming Amendments.—

(1) Section 202(e)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 602(e)(1)) is amended—

(A) by inserting “and” before “(B) the levels”; and

(B) by striking “, and (C)” and all that follows through “1985”.

(2) Section 403(a)(3) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(3)) is amended—

(A) by striking subparagraph (G); and

(B) by redesignating subparagraph (H) as subparagraph (G). <all>

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