No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013

Effects and codifications

Full title	To ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.
Introduced in	113th United States Congress
Introduced on	January 21, 2013
Sponsored by	Rep. Dave Camp (R, MI-4)
Number of co-sponsors	1
Act(s) affected	Congressional Budget Act of 1974
U.S.C. section(s) affected	31 U.S.C. § 3101(b), 31 U.S.C. § 3101(b), 31 U.S.C. § 3101A, chapter 31 of such title
Agencies affected	United States Congress, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, United States Department of the Treasury,
[H.R. 325 Legislative history]
Introduced in the House as H.R. 325 by Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) on January 21, 2013 Committee consideration by: United States House Committee on House Administration, United States House Committee on Ways and Means Passed the House on January 23, 2013 (285-144 Roll Call Vote #30) Passed the Senate on January 31, 2013 (64-34 Recorded Vote 11) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on February 4, 2013

In the United States, the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 (Pub.L. 113–3; H.R. 325) is a law that was passed during the 113th United States Congress. The Act temporarily suspended the United States debt ceiling from February 4, 2013 until May 18, 2013. It also placed temporary restrictions on Congressional salaries.

An earlier version of the No Budget, No Pay Act (unrelated to the debt ceiling) was originally introduced in early 2012 by Jim Cooper, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee. It stipulated that congressmen in the United States Congress would not get paid unless they passed a budget by October 1, 2012.

The bill received limited bipartisan support. However, some members of Congress on both sides of the aisle opposed the bill, stating it would have likely violated the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which states "No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened."

It was considered dead until mid-January 2013 when Republican lawmakers came up with the idea of combining sections of this bill with a debt ceiling increase; Democratic lawmakers eventually accepted the compromise.

This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

This summary was written by the bill's sponsor, Rep. Dave Camp.

The Senate passed the FY2014 budget on March 23, 2013, 23 days before the deadline set by the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013. This was the first Senate budget passage since a FY2010 budget passed on April 29, 2009. (No Senate budget was passed for FY2011, FY2012, or FY2013.)

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