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[CITE: 42USC911]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VII--ADMINISTRATION
 
Sec. 911. Budgetary treatment of trust fund operations

    (a) The receipts and disbursements of the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 
Trust Fund and the taxes imposed under sections 1401 and 3101 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 shall not be included in the totals of the 
budget of the United States Government as submitted by the President or 
of the congressional budget and shall be exempt from any general budget 
limitation imposed by statute on expenditures and net lending (budget 
outlays) of the United States Government.
    (b) No provision of law enacted after December 12, 1985 (other than 
a provision of an appropriation Act that appropriated funds authorized 
under this chapter as in effect on December 12, 1985) may provide for 
payments from the general fund of the Treasury to any Trust Fund 
specified in subsection (a) of this section or for payments from any 
such Trust Fund to the general fund of the Treasury.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, Sec. 710, as added and amended Pub. 
L. 98-21, title III, Sec. 346(a)(1), (b), Apr. 20, 1983, 97 Stat. 137, 
138; Pub. L. 99-177, title II, Sec. 261(a)(1), (b), Dec. 12, 1985, 99 
Stat. 1093, 1094; Pub. L. 105-33, title X, Sec. 10209(c), Aug. 5, 1997, 
111 Stat. 711.)

                       References in Text

    The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, referred to in subsec. (a), is 
classified generally to Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.


                               Amendments

    1997--Pub. L. 105-33 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, 
section provided that receipts and disbursements of Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, 
and Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and taxes imposed under 
sections 1401, 3101, and 3111 of title 26 were not to be included in 
totals of budget of United States Government, that no law enacted after 
Dec. 12, 1985, except certain appropriations Act provisions, could 
provide for payments from general fund of the Treasury to any such Trust 
Fund or from any such Trust Fund to general fund, and that disbursements 
of Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund were to be treated 
as a separate major functional category in budget of the Government.
    1985--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-177, Sec. 261(b), designated existing 
provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).
    Pub. L. 99-177, Sec. 261(a)(1)(E), temporarily added subsec. (a). 
See Effective and Termination Dates of 1985 Amendment note below.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-177, Sec. 261(a)(1)(A)-(D), temporarily 
designated existing provisions as subsec. (b), struck out references to 
the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and to the 
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and substituted ``sections 
1401(b), 3101(b), and 3111(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954'' for 
``sections 1401, 3101, and 3111 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954''. 
See Effective and Termination Dates of 1985 Amendment note below.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99-177, Sec. 261(a)(1)(F), temporarily added 
subsec. (c). See Effective and Termination Dates of 1985 Amendment note 
below.
    1983--Pub. L. 98-21, Sec. 346(b), amended section generally, adding 
subsec. (a) and designating existing provisions as subsec. (b) and 
striking out ``Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the 
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance 
Trust Fund, and the'' after ``The disbursements of the'' and 
substituting ``such Trust Fund'' for ``such Trust Funds'', including the 
taxes imposed under sections 1401, 3101, and 3111 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1954,'' after ``receipts of such Trust Fund''.


            Effective and Termination Dates of 1985 Amendment

    Section 261(a)(2) of Pub. L. 99-177 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall apply with respect 
to fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1985, and ending before 
October 1, 1992.''


                    Effective Date of 1983 Amendment

    Section 346(b) of Pub. L. 98-21 provided that the amendment made by 
that section is effective for fiscal years beginning on or after Oct. 1, 
1992.


                     Effective and Termination Dates

    Section 346(a)(2) of Pub. L. 98-21 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by paragraph (1) [enacting this section] shall apply with respect 
to fiscal years beginning on or after October 1, 1984, and ending on or 
before September 30, 1992, except that such amendment shall apply with 
respect to the fiscal year beginning on October 1, 1983, to the extent 
it relates to the congressional budget.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 2 section 906.
