Expedited Consideration of Proposed Rescissions Act of 1993

Summary: Expedited Consideration of Proposed Rescissions Act of 1993 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to require a special message, in the case of budget authority proposed to be rescinded, to include language amending the law authorizing such programs to allow them to continue to function at the proposed new level of budget authority. 
Allows the President to transmit to both Houses of the Congress, for expedited consideration, one or more special messages proposing to rescind all or part of any item of budget authority provided in an appropriation bill. 
Requires that such special message be transmitted not later than three days after the President approves the appropriation bill and be accompanied by a draft bill or joint resolution that would, if enacted, rescind the budget authority proposed to be rescinded.  Sets forth House and Senate procedures for the expedited consideration of such a proposal.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Expedited Consideration of Proposed 
Rescissions Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED RESCISSIONS.

    (a) In General.--Part B of title X of the Congressional Budget and 
Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by 
redesignating sections 1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, 
respectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following new 
section:

       ``expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions

    ``Sec. 1013. (a) Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority.--In 
addition to the method of rescinding budget authority specified in 
section 1012, the President may propose, at the time and in the manner 
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority 
provided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for obligation 
under this procedure may not be proposed for rescission again under 
this section or section 1012.
    ``(b) Transmittal of Special Message.--
            ``(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of enactment of 
        an appropriation Act, the President may transmit to Congress a 
        special message proposing to rescind amounts of budget 
        authority provided in that Act and include with that special 
        message a draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that 
        budget authority. That bill shall clearly identify the amount 
        of budget authority that is proposed to be rescinded for each 
        program, project, or activity to which that budget authority 
        relates.
            ``(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that includes 
        accounts within the jurisdiction of more than one subcommittee 
        of the Committee on Appropriations, the President in proposing 
        to rescind budget authority under this section shall send a 
        separate special message and accompanying draft bill for 
        accounts within the jurisdiction of each such subcommittee.
            ``(3) Each special message shall specify, with respect to 
        the budget authority proposed to be rescinded, the matters 
        referred to in paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a).
    ``(c) Limitation on Amounts Subject to Rescission.--
            ``(1) The amount of budget authority which the President 
        may propose to rescind in a special message under this section 
        for a particular program, project, or activity for a fiscal 
        year may not exceed 25 percent of the amount appropriated for 
        that program, project, or activity in that Act.
            ``(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1) shall only 
        apply to amounts specifically authorized to be appropriated for 
        a particular program, project, or activity.
    ``(d) Procedures for Expedited Consideration.--
            ``(1)(A) Before the close of the second day of continuous 
        session of the applicable House after the date of receipt of a 
        special message transmitted to Congress under subsection (b), 
        the majority leader or minority leader of the House of 
        Representatives shall introduce (by request) the draft bill 
        accompanying that special message. If the bill is not 
        introduced as provided in the preceding sentence, then, on the 
        third day of continuous session of the House of Representatives 
        after the date of receipt of that special message, any Member 
        of that House may introduce the bill.
            ``(B) The bill shall be referred to the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives. The committee 
        shall report the bill without substantive revision and with or 
        without recommendation. The bill shall be reported not later 
        than the seventh day of continuous session of that House after 
        the date of receipt of that special message. If the Committee 
        on Appropriations fails to report the bill within that period, 
        that committee shall be automatically discharged from 
        consideration of the bill, and the bill shall be placed on the 
        appropriate calendar.
            ``(C) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member 
        of the House of Representatives may move to strike any proposed 
        rescission or rescissions of budget authority if supported by 
        49 other Members.
            ``(D) A vote on final passage of the bill shall be taken in 
        the House of Representatives on or before the close of the 10th 
        calendar day of continuous session of that House after the date 
        of the introduction of the bill in that House. If the bill is 
        passed, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall cause 
        the bill to be engrossed, certified, and transmitted to the 
        Senate within one calendar day of the day on which the bill is 
        passed.
            ``(2)(A) A motion in the House of Representatives to 
        proceed to the consideration of a bill under this section shall 
        be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the 
        motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move 
        to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or 
        disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the House of Representatives on a bill 
        under this section shall not exceed 4 hours, which shall be 
        divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the 
        bill. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. 
        It shall not be in order to move to recommit a bill under this 
        section or to move to reconsider the vote by which the bill is 
        agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(C) Appeals from decisions of the Chair relating to the 
        application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the 
        procedure relating to a bill under this section shall be 
        decided without debate.
            ``(D) Except to the extent specifically provided in the 
        preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of a 
        bill under this section shall be governed by the Rules of the 
        House of Representatives.
            ``(3)(A) A bill transmitted to the Senate pursuant to 
        paragraph (1)(C) shall be referred to its Committee on 
        Appropriations. The committee shall report the bill without 
        substantive revision and with or without recommendation. The 
        bill shall be reported not later than the seventh day of 
        continuous session of the Senate after it receives the bill. A 
        committee failing to report the bill within such period shall 
        be automatically discharged from consideration of the bill, and 
        the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate calendar.
            ``(B) During consideration under this paragraph, any Member 
        of the Senate may move to strike any proposed rescission or 
        rescissions of budget authority if supported by 14 other 
        Members.
            ``(C) A vote on final passage of a bill transmitted to the 
        Senate shall be taken on or before the close of the 10th 
        calendar day of continuous session of the Senate after the date 
        on which the bill is transmitted. If the bill is passed in the 
        Senate without amendment, the Secretary of the Senate shall 
        cause the engrossed bill to be returned to the House of 
        Representatives.
            ``(D) If the bill is amended in the Senate solely as 
        provided by subparagraph (B), the Secretary of the Senate shall 
        cause an engrossed amendment (in the nature of a substitute) to 
        be returned to the House of Representatives. Upon receipt of 
        that amendment from the Senate, the House shall be deemed to 
        have agreed to the Senate amendment and the Clerk of the House 
        of Representatives shall enroll the bill.
            ``(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to the 
        consideration of a bill under this section shall be privileged 
        and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in 
        order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote 
        by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.
            ``(B) Debate in the Senate on a bill under this section, 
        and all debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, 
        shall not exceed 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided 
        between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the 
        minority leader or their designees.
            ``(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable motion or 
        appeal in connection with a bill under this section shall be 
        limited to not more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
        and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill, 
        except that in the event the manager of the bill is in favor of 
        any such motion or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, 
        shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. 
        Such leaders, or either of them, may, from time under their 
        control on the passage of a bill, allot additional time to any 
        Senator during the consideration of any debatable motion or 
        appeal.
            ``(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit debate on a 
        bill under this section is not debatable. A motion to recommit 
        a bill under this section is not in order.
    ``(e) Amendments and Divisions Prohibited.--Except as provided by 
paragraph (1)(C) or (3)(B) of subsection (d), no amendment to a bill 
considered under this section shall be in order in either the House of 
Representatives or the Senate. It shall not be in order to demand a 
division of the question in the House of Representatives (or in a 
Committee of the Whole) or in the Senate. No motion to suspend the 
application of this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor 
shall it be in order in either House to suspend the application of this 
subsection by unanimous consent.
    ``(f) Requirement to Make Available for Obligation.--Any amount of 
budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a special message 
transmitted to Congress under subsection (b) shall be made available 
for obligation on the day after the date on which either House defeats 
the bill transmitted with that special message.
    ``(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section--
            ``(1) the term `appropriation Act' means any general or 
        special appropriation Act, and any Act or joint resolution 
        making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing appropriations; 
        and
            ``(2) continuity of a session of either House of Congress 
        shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of that 
        House sine die, and the days on which that House is not in 
        session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a date 
        certain shall be excluded in the computation of any period.''.
    (b) Exercise of Rulemaking Powers.--Section 904 of such Act (2 
U.S.C. 621 note) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``and 1017'' in subsection (a) and 
        inserting ``1013, and 1018''; and
            (2) by striking ``section 1017'' in subsection (d) and 
        inserting ``sections 1013 and 1018''; and
    (c) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 1011 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended--
                    (A) in paragraph (4), by striking ``1013'' and 
                inserting ``1014''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (5)--
                            (i) by striking ``1016'' and inserting 
                        ``1017''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``1017(b)(1)'' and 
                        inserting ``1018(b)(1)''.
            (2) Section 1015 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 685) (as 
        redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``1012 or 1013'' each place it 
                appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or 1014'';
                    (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``1012'' and 
                inserting ``1012 or 1013'';
                    (C) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``1013'' and 
                inserting ``1014''; and
                    (D) in subsection (e)(2)--
                            (i) by striking ``and'' at the end of 
                        subparagraph (A);
                            (ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
                        subparagraph (C);
                            (iii) by striking ``1013'' in subparagraph 
                        (C) (as so redesignated) and inserting 
                        ``1014''; and
                            (iv) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
                        the following new subparagraph:
                    ``(B) he has transmitted a special message under 
                section 1013 with respect to a proposed rescission; 
                and''.
            (3) Section 1016 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 686) (as 
        redesignated by section 2(a)) is amended by striking ``1012 or 
        1013'' each place it appears and inserting ``1012, 1013, or 
        1014''.
    (d) Clerical Amendments.--The table of sections for subpart B of 
title X of such Act is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the items relating to sections 1013 
        through 1017 as items relating to sections 1014 through 1018; 
        and
            (2) by inserting after the item relating to section 1012 
        the following new item:

``Sec. 1013. Expedited consideration of certain proposed 
                            rescissions.''.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION.

    Section 1013 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 (as added by section 2) shall apply to amounts of budget 
authority provided by appropriation Acts (as defined in subsection (g) 
of such section) that are enacted during the One Hundred Third 
Congress.

SEC. 4. TERMINATION.

    The authority provided by section 1013 of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (as added by section 2) shall 
terminate effective on the date in 1994 on which Congress adjourns sine 
die.