Number: RS20441
Title: Advance Appropriations, Forward Funding, and Advance Funding
Authors: Sandy Streeter, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: During consideration of recent appropriations measures, one long-standing but obscure budget practice - advance appropriations - received considerable attention. In a time of budgetary constraints, advance appropriations provide opportunities to include spending in appropriations measures that are not immediately counted. Two related, but less discussed practices, are forward funding and advance funding.
Pages: 3
Date: January 25, 2007