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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4913 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4913

To ensure that no extraneous items are included in any bill containing 
                       an emergency designation.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 5, 1994

 Mr. Stenholm (for himself, Mr. Penny, and Mr. Kasich) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on 
                    Government Operations and Rules

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                                 A BILL

 
To ensure that no extraneous items are included in any bill containing 
                       an emergency designation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Spending Control Act of 
1994''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF EMERGENCY SPENDING.

    (a) Emergency Appropriations.--Section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 
adding at the end the following new sentence: ``However, OMB shall not 
adjust any discretionary spending limit under this clause for any 
statute that designates appropriations as emergency requirements if 
that statute contains an appropriation for any other matter, event, or 
occurrence, including another emergency, but that statute may contain 
other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency 
appropriations for the designated emergency.''.
    (b) Emergency Legislation.--Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended--
            (1) in its first sentence by inserting ``(which statute 
        contains no other appropriation for any other matter, including 
        another emergency)'' after ``statute''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new sentence: 
        ``However, OMB shall not designate any such amounts of new 
        budget authority, outlays, or receipts as emergency 
        requirements in the report required under subsection (d) if 
        that statute contains any other matter, event, or occurrence, 
        including another emergency, but that statute may contain other 
        offsetting provisions that reduce spending or nonemergency 
        appropriations for the designated emergency.''.
    (c) New Point of Order.--Title IV of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

                 ``point of order regarding emergencies

    ``Sec. 408. It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill or joint resolution, 
or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, containing an 
emergency designation for purposes of section 251(b)(2)(D) or 252(e) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 if it 
also provides an appropriation for any other item (including another 
emergency) or contains any other matter (including another emergency), 
but that bill or joint resolution, amendment, or conference report may 
contain other offsetting provisions that reduce spending or 
nonemergency appropriations for the designated emergency.''.
    (d) Conforming Amendment.--The table of contents set forth in 
section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 313 the 
following new item:

``Sec. 408. Point of order regarding emergencies.''.
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