Unspent balances from earlier acts may be merged into these accounts
What the document says“the unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to appropriation accounts for such activities established pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same time period as originally enacted.”
Section 502. Subject to the reprogramming rules in section 503, money left over from earlier appropriations for the same activities may be moved into the accounts this Act establishes, merged with what is there, and then treated as a single fund for the period the earlier act set.
What the document actually says“the unexpended balances of prior appropriations provided for activities in this Act may be transferred to appropriation accounts for such activities established pursuant to this Act, may be merged with funds in the applicable established accounts, and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund for the same time period as originally enacted.”
Money left over from older laws may be moved into these accounts. Once moved, it is treated as one pot.
Accounts get renamed and reshaped over the years. This lets old balances follow the work. The old time limit still holds.
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