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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 2929

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974

to reform the budget process, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

AUGUST 6, 1993

Mr. COX of California (for himself, Mr. STENHOLM, Mr. MICHEL, Mr.

PALLONE, Mr. GINGRICH, Mr. PENNY, Mr. CONDIT, Mr. ARMEY, Mr. JACOBS, Mr. KASICH, Mrs. LLOYD, Mr. CLINGER, Mr. DREIER, Ms. HARMAN, Mr. ALLARD, Mr. ARCHER, Mr. BACHUS of Alabama, Mr. BAKER

of California, Mr. BAKER of Louisiana, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. BARRETT

of Nebraska, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. BARTON of Texas, Mr.

BATEMAN, Mrs. BENTLEY, Mr. BEREUTER, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. BLILEY,

Mr. BLUTE, Mr. BOEHLERT, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. BONILLA, Mr.

BUNNING, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. BUYER, Mr. CALLAHAN, Mr.

CALVERT, Mr. CAMP, Mr. CANADY, Mr. CASTLE, Mr. COBLE, Mr. COLLINS of Georgia, Mr. CRANE, Mr. CRAPO, Mr. CUNNINGHAM, Mr.

DELAY, Mr. DICKEY, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. DORNAN, Mr. DUNCAN, Ms.

DUNN, Mr. EMERSON, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. EWING, Mr. FAWELL, Mr.

FIELDS of Texas, Mrs. FOWLER, Mr. FRANKS of New Jersey, Mr.

FRANKS of Connecticut, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. GALLO, Mr. GEKAS, Mr.

GILCHREST, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. GOSS, Mr. GRAMS, Mr.

GRANDY, Mr. GREENWOOD, Mr. GUNDERSON, Mr. HANCOCK, Mr. HANSEN, Mr. HASTERT, Mr. HEFLEY, Mr. HERGER, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr.

HOKE, Mr. HORN, Mr. HOBSON, Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. HUFFINGTON, Mr.

HUNTER, Mr. HUTCHINSON, Mr. HYDE, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina,

Mr. INHOFE, Mr. ISTOOK, Mrs. JOHNSON OF CONNECTICUT, Mr. SAM

JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. KIM, Mr. KLUG, Mr. KNOLLENBERG, Mr.

KOLBE, Mr. KYL, Mr. LEVY, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. LEWIS of

Florida, Mr. LIGHTFOOT, Mr. LINDER, Mr. LIVINGSTON, Mr.

MACHTLEY, Mr. MANZULLO, Mr. MICA, Mr. MCCANDLESS, Mr. MCCOLLUM, Mr. MCCRERY, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. MCMILLAN, Mrs.

MEYERS of Kansas, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Ms. MOLINARI, Mr. MOORHEAD, Mr. OXLEY, Mr. PACKARD, Mr. PAXON, Mr. POMBO, Mr. PETRI,

Mr. PORTER, Mr. PORTMAN, Ms. PRYCE of Ohio, Mr. QUINN, Mr.

RAMSTAD, Mr. RAVENEL, Mr. ROBERTS, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Ms. ROSLEHTINEN, Mrs. ROUKEMA, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. SANTORUM, Mr. SAXTON,

Mr. SCHAEFER, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SHAW, Mr.

SHAYS, Mr. SHUSTER, Mr. SMITH of Oregon, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey,
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Mr. SMITH of Texas, Mr. SMITH of Michigan, Ms. SNOWE, Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. SPENCE, Mr. STEARNS, Mr. STUMP, Mr. SUNDQUIST, Mr. TALENT, Mr. TAYLOR of North Carolina, Mr. THOMAS of California, Mr.

THOMAS of Wyoming, Mr. TORKILDSEN, Mr. UPTON, Mrs. VUCANOVICH,

Mr. WALKER, Mr. WALSH, Mr. WELDON, Mr. WOLF, Mr. ZELIFF and

Mr. ZIMMER) introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to

the Committees on Government Operations, Rules, Appropriations, and

Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to reform the budget process, and

for other purposes.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the

5 ‘‘Budget Process Reform Act’’.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE I—STATEMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL PURPOSE

Sec. 101. Improvement in decision-making process.

Sec. 102. Reform of fiscal management.

Sec. 103. Safeguards against delay and inaction.

TITLE II—BINDING BUDGET LAW

Sec. 201. Joint resolution establishing binding budget law.

Sec. 202. Budget required before spending bills may be considered.

Sec. 203. ‘‘Baseline’’ budgeting prohibited; unadjusted year-to-year comparisons required in budget law.

Sec. 204. President’s budget submissions.

TITLE III—ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS

Subtitle A—Supermajority Required to Break Budget Law

Sec. 301. Two-thirds requirement for all spending bills in absence of budget

law.

Sec. 302. Two-thirds requirement for over-budget spending bills.

(a) Determination of budget effect of all proposed spending bills.
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(b) CBO report required before consideration of spending bills.

(c) Two-thirds requirement for all over-budget spending bills.

(d) Determination of spending in a category.

Sec. 303. Two-thirds requirement for waiver of the act.

Subtitle B—Line Item Reduction

Sec. 304. President’s authority limited to spending above limits of congressional

budget law.

Sec. 305. Application.

Subtitle C—‘‘Blank Check’’ Appropriations Prohibited

Sec. 306. Intent of Congress.

Sec. 307. Fixed-dollar appropriations required.

Sec. 308. Agency-adjusted benefits.

Sec. 309. Budget authority and entitlement authority may cover only a single

fiscal period.

Subtitle D—‘‘Pay As You Go’’ Requirement for New Spending

Sec. 310. Spending offsets required.

Sec. 311. Two-thirds vote required to waive point of order.

TITLE IV—SUSTAINING MECHANISM

Sec. 401. Automatic continuing resolution.

Sec. 402. Contingency regulations.

Sec. 403. Unauthorized appropriations prohibited.

TITLE V—PROTECTION OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Sec. 501. Benefits protected against deficit reduction.

Sec. 502. Conforming amendment.

TITLE VI—TIMETABLE

Sec. 601. Revision of timetable.

TITLE VII—CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

Sec. 701. Conforming and technical amendments changing ‘‘Concurrent’’ to

‘‘Joint’’ Resolutions.

Sec. 702. Further conforming and technical amendments.

Sec. 703. Conforming amendments to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

Sec. 704. Conforming amendment to title 31, United States Code.

TITLE VIII—DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF INTERPRETATION

Sec. 801. Definitions.

(a) Definition of budget law.

(b) Other definitions.

Sec. 802. Amendments to Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act

of 1974.

Sec. 803. Use of terms.

TITLE IX—EFFECTIVE DATE

Sec. 901. General provision.
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Sec. 902. Fiscal year.

1 TITLE I—STATEMENT OF

2 CONGRESSIONAL PURPOSE

3 SEC. 101. IMPROVEMENT IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESS.

4 Because the Federal budget process is the principal

5 vehicle by which many of the most fundamental policy

6 choices in Government are made, the purpose of this Act

7 is to facilitate rational, informed, and timely decisions by

8 the Congress in the course of that process.

9 SEC. 102. REFORM OF FISCAL MANAGEMENT.

10 It is the sense of the Congress that a properly func11 tioning Federal budget process should focus the attention

12 of policymakers and the public on the aggregate impact

13 of Federal spending on the economy, and on the tradeoffs

14 that must be made among priorities in order to control

15 overall levels of spending. To this end, the Act is intended

16 to establish a budget process that, in each fiscal period—

17 (1) requires the adoption of a budget before,

18 not after, any spending begins;

19 (2) produces decisions on that budget early in

20 the budgeting cycle;

21 (3) encourages cooperation between Congress

22 and the President in adopting the budget;

23 (4) ties each subsequent spending decision to

24 an overall, binding budget total;
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1 (5) requires regular, periodic decisions on ap2 propriate spending levels for all Federal programs,

3 not just those arbitrarily deemed ‘‘controllable’’; and

4 (6) produces a bias in favor of fiscal respon5 sibility that can be overcome only if the Congress ex6 pressly determines to do so.

7 SEC. 103. SAFEGUARDS AGAINST DELAY AND INACTION.

8 The Congress further finds that a properly function9 ing budget process should contain safeguards against

10 delay and inaction, so that temporary shut-downs of the

11 Federal Government may be avoided when the President

12 and the Congress fail to complete work on the budget prior

13 to the beginning of a fiscal period. Accordingly, this Act

14 is intended to provide an enforcement mechanism that

15 gives meaning and importance to the timely adoption of

16 a budget, and a sustaining mechanism that ensures a con17 tinuation of the Government should the political process

18 produce deadlock or a failure to act in a timely fashion.

19 TITLE II—BINDING BUDGET LAW

20 SEC. 201. JOINT RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING BINDING

21 BUDGET LAW.

22 To encourage early consultation and cooperation be23 tween the Congress and the President on decisions con24 cerning overall spending levels for all Federal programs,

25 the Congress shall enact a binding budget law, in the form
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1 of a joint resolution, by April 15 of the calendar year be2 fore that in which the fiscal period commences. The tech3 nical amendments contained in title VI and section 701

4 of this Act are intended to assist in the establishment of

5 this requirement. The budget law itself shall fit on a single

6 page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings in the fol7 lowing 19 major functional categories, which together

8 comprise the entire Federal budget.

9 Function 050: National Defense

10 Function 150: International Affairs

11 Function 250: General Science, Space and

12 Technology

13 Function 270: Energy

14 Function 300: Natural Resources and Environ15 ment

16 Function 350: Agriculture

17 Function 400: Transportation

18 Function 450: Community and Regional Devel19 opment

20 Function 500: Education, Training, Employ21 ment and Social Services

22 Function 550: Health

23 Function 570: Medicare

24 Function 600: Income Security

25 Function 650: Social Security
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1 Function 700: Veterans Benefits and Services

2 Function 750: Administration of Justice

3 Function 800: General Government

4 Function 900: Net Interest

5 Function 920: Allowances

6 Function 950: Undistributed Offsetting Re7 ceipts.

8 By thus requiring that the budget process begin with

9 highly generalized macroeconomic decisions about spend10 ing in 19 overall categories, this section is intended to fa11 cilitate agreement within Congress itself, and between

12 Congress and the President, on how much the Federal

13 Government should spend in the ensuing fiscal period.

14 SEC. 202. BUDGET REQUIRED BEFORE SPENDING BILLS

15 MAY BE CONSIDERED.

16 Unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is

17 enacted with respect to any major functional category for

18 a fiscal period, it shall not be in order in either the House

19 of Representatives or the Senate, or any committee or sub20 committee thereof, to consider any spending bill affecting

21 spending in that category, except as provided in Title III

22 of this Act. The purpose of this provision is to ensure that

23 until the budget is signed into law, no authorization or

24 appropriations bill shall be considered in the Congress.
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1 SEC. 203. ‘‘BASELINE’’ BUDGETING PROHIBITED;

2 UNADJUSTED YEAR-TO-YEAR COMPARISONS

3 REQUIRED IN BUDGET LAW.

4 Section 301(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of

5 1974 is amended by—

6 (1) inserting after the second sentence the fol7 lowing: ‘‘The starting point for any deliberations in

8 the Committee on the Budget of each House on the

9 joint resolution on the budget for the next fiscal pe10 riod shall be the estimated level of outlays for the

11 current period in each function and subfunction.

12 Any increases or decreases in the Congressional

13 budget for the next fiscal period shall be from such

14 estimated levels.’’;

15 (2) striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and insert16 ing the following:

17 ‘‘(2) a comparison of levels for the current fis18 cal period with proposed spending for the subse19 quent fiscal periods along with the proposed increase

20 or decrease of spending in percentage terms for each

21 function and subfunction;

22 ‘‘(3) information, data, and comparisons indi23 cating the manner in which, and the basis on which,

24 the committee determined each of the matters set

25 forth in the joint resolution, including information

26 on outlays for the current fiscal period and the deci-
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1 sions reached to set funding for the subsequent fis2 cal years;’’;

3 (3) inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon in para4 graph (7);

5 (4) striking paragraph (8); and

6 (5) redesignating paragraph (9) as paragraph

7 (8).

8 The technical amendments contained in sections

9 702(g) and 704(b) of this Act are intended to apply the

10 same prohibition against ‘‘baseline’’ budgeting to the

11 budgets prepared by the President and the Congressional

12 Budget Office reports to the Budget Committees.

13 SEC. 204. PRESIDENT’S BUDGET SUBMISSIONS.

14 On or before the fifteenth day after a joint resolution

15 on the budget is enacted, the President shall submit to

16 the Congress a detailed budget for the fiscal period begin17 ning on October 1 of the current calendar year, including

18 all summaries and explanations required under section

19 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.
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1 TITLE III—ENFORCEMENT MECHANICS

2 Subtitle A—Supermajority Required to Break

3 Budget Law

4 SEC. 301. TWO–THIRDS REQUIREMENT FOR ALL SPENDING

5 BILLS IN ABSENCE OF BUDGET LAW.

6 Unless and until a joint resolution on the budget is

7 enacted with respect to any major functional category for

8 a fiscal period, it shall not be in order in either the House

9 of Representatives or the Senate or any committee or sub10 committee thereof, to consider any spending bill affecting

11 spending in that category unless it is approved by the af12 firmative vote of two-thirds of the Members voting, a

13 quorum being present.

14 SEC. 302. TWO–THIRDS REQUIREMENT FOR OVER–BUDGET

15 SPENDING BILLS.

16 (a) DETERMINATION OF BUDGET EFFECT OF ALL

17 PROPOSED SPENDING BILLS.—The Congressional Budget

18 Office shall provide to either House of Congress (or the

19 appropriate committee, subcommittee, or conference

20 thereof) as soon as practicable after the introduction of

21 any spending bill, its estimate of the costs in each major

22 functional category attributable to that bill during the fis23 cal period in which it is to become effective and in each

24 of the next 4 fiscal years, together with the basis for such

25 estimate. The Congressional Budget Office report shall
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1 not be required, however, if the Congressional Budget Of2 fice certifies that a spending bill will likely result in appli3 cable costs of less than $10,000,000. For purposes of esti4 mating the costs attributable to any spending bill that in5 cludes new credit authority, the report shall deem the mar6 ket value of any loan (if it were sold by the Federal Gov7 ernment) or the assumption cost of any guarantee (if it

8 were assumed at market rates) to be the costs attributable

9 to such loan or guarantee in the fiscal period in which

10 it is made.

11 (b) CBO REPORT REQUIRED BEFORE CONSIDER12 ATION OF SPENDING BILLS.—It shall not be in order in

13 either the House of Representatives or the Senate, or in

14 any committee thereof, to consider any spending bill, un15 less and until the report referred to in subsection (a) has

16 been made available to that House of Congress or the ap17 propriate committee or subcommittee thereof.

18 (c) TWO-THIRDS REQUIREMENT FOR ALL OVER19 BUDGET SPENDING BILLS.—It shall not be in order in

20 either the House of Representatives or the Senate (or in

21 any committee, subcommittee, or conference) to consider

22 any spending bill for a fiscal period that the report re23 ferred to in subsection (a) indicates would in such fiscal

24 period exceed a budget ceiling, unless such bill is approved
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1 by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Members vot2 ing, a quorum being present.

3 (d) DETERMINATION OF SPENDING IN A CAT4 EGORY.—A spending bill shall be deemed to break a budg5 et ceiling if—

6 (1) its cost in any major functional category as

7 estimated in the report referred to in subsection (a);

8 and

9 (2) all other budget authority, budget outlays,

10 and entitlement authority, if any, in that major

11 functional category for the relevant fiscal period con12 tained in any previously enacted legislation for the

13 fiscal period; and

14 (3) to the extent that new budget authority or

15 entitlement authority for the relevant fiscal period

16 has not been granted (or modified from the level of

17 the previous fiscal period) in any other enacted legis18 lation for any program within such major functional

19 category, the amounts of budget authority and enti20 tlement authority for such major functional category

21 (or part thereof) for the previous fiscal period;

22 exceed the budget ceiling for such major functional cat23 egory.
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1 SEC. 303. TWO–THIRDS REQUIREMENT FOR WAIVER OF

2 THIS ACT.

3 No waiver of any provision of this Act, including the

4 calendar deadlines for completion of Congressional action

5 and the provisions concerning over-budget spending, shall

6 be effective unless approved by the affirmative vote of two7 thirds of the Members of the House of Representatives

8 or the Senate, as the case may be, a quorum being

9 present. No committee of either the House of Representa10 tives or the Senate shall have jurisdiction to report a rule

11 governing procedures for consideration of spending bills

12 covered by this Act, if such rule would violate the provi13 sions of this section. Nothing in this provision shall be

14 deemed to require a supermajority vote to amend this Act.

15 Subtitle B—Line Item Reduction

16 SEC. 304. PRESIDENT’S AUTHORITY LIMITED TO SPENDING

17 ABOVE LIMITS OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

18 LAW.

19 The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.

20 681 et seq.) is amended by redesignating sections 1013

21 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, respectively,

22 and inserting after section 1012 the following new section:

23 ‘‘PRESIDENTIAL LINE-ITEM REDUCTION OF SPENDING

24 ABOVE LIMITS OF CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET LAW

25 ‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MES26 SAGE.—The President may transmit to both Houses of
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1 Congress for consideration in accordance with this section

2 one or more special messages detailing his use of line item

3 reduction authority to rescind (in whole or in part) items

4 of budget authority or entitlement authority sufficient to

5 ensure that the levels of budget authority, entitlement au6 thority, and outlays in a functional category do not exceed

7 the levels stated in the budget law for the applicable fiscal

8 period (or, in the absence of a budget law, do not exceed

9 such levels in the previous fiscal period).

10 ‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.—For purposes of this section—

11 ‘‘(1) continuing appropriations made pursuant

12 to section 1311 of title 31, United States Code, shall

13 be treated as continuing appropriations for an entire

14 fiscal period; and

15 ‘‘(2) the levels of budget authority, entitlement

16 authority, and outlays shall be determined on the

17 basis of the reports made by the Congressional

18 Budget Office pursuant to section 202 of the Budget

19 Process Reform Act of 1990.

20 ‘‘(c) CONTENTS OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—Each spe21 cial message transmitted under subsection (a) shall speci22 fy, with respect to each item of budget authority to be

23 rescinded under the President’s line-item reduction au24 thority the matters referred to in paragraphs (1) through

25 (5) of section 1012(a).
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1 ‘‘(d) REQUIREMENT NOT TO MAKE AVAILABLE FOR

2 OBLIGATION.—Any item of budget authority to be re3 scinded as set forth in such special message shall not be

4 made available for obligation unless, within the prescribed

5 45-day period, Congress completes action on a bill dis6 approving the line-item reduction of the amount to be re7 scinded. Funds made available for obligation under this

8 procedure may not be included in a special message again.

9 ‘‘(e) PROCEDURES.—

10 ‘‘(1)(A) Before the close of the third day begin11 ning after the day on which a special message to re12 scind an item of budget authority is transmitted to

13 the House of Representatives and the Senate under

14 subsection (a), a line-item reduction bill may be in15 troduced (by request) by the majority leader or mi16 nority leader of the House of the Congress in which

17 the appropriation Act providing the budget authority

18 originated to disapprove the line-item reduction set

19 forth in the special message. If such House is not

20 in session on the day on which a special message is

21 transmitted, the line-item reduction bill may be in22 troduced in such House, as provided in the preced23 ing sentence, on the first day thereafter on which

24 such House is in session.
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1 ‘‘(B) A line-item reduction bill introduced in the

2 House of Representatives or the Senate pursuant to

3 subparagraph (A) shall be referred to the Committee

4 on Appropriations of such House. The Committee

5 shall report the line-item reduction bill without sub6 stantive revision (and with or without recommenda7 tion) not later than 15 calendar days of continuous

8 session of the Congress after the date on which the

9 bill is introduced. A committee failing to report a

10 line-item reduction bill within the 15-day period re11 ferred to in the preceding sentence shall be auto12 matically discharged from consideration of the bill

13 and the bill shall be placed on the appropriate cal14 endar.

15 ‘‘(C) A vote on final passage of a line-item re16 duction bill introduced in a House of the Congress

17 pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall be taken on or

18 before the close of the 25th calendar day of continu19 ous session of the Congress after the date of the in20 troduction of the bill in such House. If the line-item

21 reduction bill is agreed to, the Clerk of the House

22 of Representatives (in the case of a bill agreed to in

23 the House of Representatives) or the Secretary of

24 the Senate (in the case of a bill agreed to in the

25 Senate) shall cause the bill to be engrossed, cer-
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1 tified, and transmitted to the other House of the

2 Congress on the same calendar day on which the bill

3 is agreed to.

4 ‘‘(2)(A) A line-item reduction bill transmitted

5 to the House of Representatives or the Senate pur6 suant to paragraph (1)(C) shall be referred to the

7 Committee on Appropriations of such House. The

8 committee shall report the line-item reduction bill

9 without substantive revision (and with or without

10 recommendation) not later than 10 calendar days of

11 continuous session of the Congress after the bill is

12 transmitted to such House. A committee failing to

13 report the line-item reduction bill within the 10-day

14 period referred to in the preceding sentence shall be

15 automatically discharged from consideration of the

16 bill and the bill shall be placed upon the appropriate

17 calendar.

18 ‘‘(B) A vote on the final passage of a line-item

19 reduction bill transmitted to a House of the Con20 gress pursuant to paragraph (1)(C) shall be taken

21 on or before the close of the 10th calendar day of

22 continuous session of the Congress after the date on

23 which the bill is transmitted to such House. If the

24 line-item reduction bill is agreed to in such House,

25 the Clerk of the House of Representatives (in the
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1 case of a bill agreed to in the House of Representa2 tives) or the Secretary of the Senate (in the case of

3 a bill agreed to in the Senate) shall cause the en4 grossed bill to be returned to the House in which the

5 bill originated, together with a statement of the ac6 tion taken by the House acting under this para7 graph.

8 ‘‘(3)(A) A motion in the House of Representa9 tives to proceed to the consideration of a line-item

10 reduction bill under this section shall be highly privi11 leged and not debatable. An amendment to the mo12 tion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order

13 to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion

14 is agreed to or disagreed to.

15 ‘‘(B) Debate in the House of Representatives

16 on a line-item reduction bill under this section shall

17 be limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be

18 divided equally between those favoring and those op19 posing the bill. A motion further to limit debate

20 shall not be debatable and shall require an affirma21 tive vote of two-thirds of the Members voting, a

22 quorum being present. It shall not be in order to

23 move to recommit a line-item reduction bill under

24 this section or to move to reconsider the vote by
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1 which the line-item reduction bill is agreed to or dis2 agreed to.

3 ‘‘(C) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair

4 relating to the application of the Rules of the House

5 of Representatives to the procedure relating to a

6 line-item reduction bill under this section shall be

7 decided without debate.

8 ‘‘(D) Except to the extent specifically provided

9 in the preceding provisions of this subsection, con10 sideration of a line-item reduction bill under this

11 section shall be governed by the Rules of the House

12 of Representatives applicable to other bills in similar

13 circumstances.

14 ‘‘(4)(A) A motion in the Senate to proceed to

15 the consideration of a line-item reduction bill under

16 this section shall be privileged and not debatable. An

17 amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor

18 shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote

19 by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

20 ‘‘(B) Debate in the Senate on a line-item reduc21 tion bill under this section, and all debatable mo22 tions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be

23 limited to not more than 2 hours. The time shall be

24 equally divided between, and controlled by, the ma-
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1 jority leader and the minority leader or their des2 ignees.

3 ‘‘(C) Debate in the Senate on any debatable

4 motion or appeal in connection with a line-item re5 duction bill under this section shall be limited to not

6 more than 1 hour, to be equally divided between,

7 and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the

8 bill except that in the event the manager of the bill

9 is in favor of any such motion or appeal, the time

10 in opposition thereto shall be controlled by the mi11 nority leader or his designee. Such leaders, or either

12 of them, may, from time under their control on the

13 passage of a line-item reduction bill, allot additional

14 time to any Senator during the consideration of any

15 debatable motion or appeal.

16 ‘‘(D) A motion in the Senate to further limit

17 debate on a line-item reduction bill under this sec18 tion is not debatable. A motion to recommit a line19 item reduction bill under this section is not in order.

20 ‘‘(f) AMENDMENTS PROHIBITED.—No amendment to

21 a line-item reduction bill considered under this section

22 shall be in order in either the House of Representatives

23 or the Senate. No motion to suspend the application of

24 this subsection shall be in order in either House, nor shall

25 it be in order in either House for the presiding officer to
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1 entertain a request to suspend the application of this sub2 section by unanimous consent.’’.

3 SEC. 305. APPLICATION.

4 The amendments made by section 304 shall apply to

5 items of budget authority (as defined in subsection (g)(1)

6 of section 1013, as added by section 103(b) of this Act)

7 provided by appropriation Acts (as defined in subsection

8 (g)(3) of such section) that become law after the date of

9 enactment of this Act.

10 Subtitle C—‘‘Blank Check’’ Appropriations

11 Prohibited

12 SEC. 306. INTENT OF CONGRESS.

13 It is the intent of Congress, by this provision, to put

14 an end to open-ended, ‘‘blank check’’ appropriations,

15 which typically authorize the spending of ‘‘such sums as

16 may be necessary.’’ By requiring explicit decisions con17 cerning the desired level of spending for each federal pro18 gram (except Social Security and interest on the debt),

19 it is intended that currently uncontrolled programs will be

20 brought within the discipline of an overall budget.

21 SEC. 307. FIXED-DOLLAR APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED.

22 (a) FIXED-DOLLAR APPROPRIATIONS.—For every ac23 count except Social Security and interest on the debt,

24 every appropriation for a fiscal period for any program,

25 project, or activity (including claims, judgments, and relief
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1 acts) shall be for a specific, fixed dollar amount. Any ap2 propriations of ‘‘such sums as may be necessary’’ (except

3 with respect to the automatic continuing resolution pro4 vided for by section 401 of this Act) are hereby prohibited.

5 (b) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in

6 either the House of Representatives or the Senate (or in

7 any committee, subcommittee, or conference) to consider

8 any appropriation that is in violation of subsection (a).

9 SEC. 308. AGENCY AUTHORITY TO ADJUST EXPENDITURES

10 TO APPROPRIATED AMOUNTS.

11 (a) The head of each Executive agency that admin12 isters any entitlement program is authorized to adjust

13 benefit levels and eligibility requirements, or both, with re14 spect to the program such that aggregate outlays for a

15 fiscal period do not exceed the fixed-dollar appropriation

16 provided pursuant to this title for such fiscal period. Such

17 adjustment shall be made by rule or, pending adoption of

18 appropriate rules, informal guideline. The purpose of any

19 such rule or guideline shall be to ensure that the fixed20 dollar appropriations for the program authorized by Con21 gress are not exceeded.

22 (b) In the event that any claim or judgment against

23 the United States exceeds the amount available therefor,

24 the aggregate appropriations for claims, judgments, and

25 relief for the current fiscal period, then the excess shall
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1 be paid first out of discretionary funds appropriated in

2 such fiscal year to the department or agency against which

3 the judgment or claim is due, next out of unobligated

4 funds appropriated to that department or agency in such

5 fiscal year, and finally out of funds appropriated to that

6 department or agency for the next fiscal year. The obliga7 tion set forth herein of a department or agency to pay

8 such claims or judgments in excess of amounts authorized

9 therefor in applicable judgment, claim and relief acts shall

10 supersede all other budget requirements for that depart11 ment or agency, any other provision of law to the contrary

12 notwithstanding.

13 SEC. 309. BUDGET AUTHORITY AND ENTITLEMENT AU14 THORITY MAY COVER ONLY A SINGLE FISCAL

15 PERIOD.

16 Chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amend17 ed by inserting after section 1312 the following new sec18 tion:

19 ‘‘§ 1313. Budget authority and entitlement authority

20 must cover single fiscal period

21 ‘‘(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and

22 except as provided by subsection (b), no budget authority

23 or entitlement authority—
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1 ‘‘(1) enacted on or after the date of enactment

2 of this section shall be effective for more than one

3 fiscal period; or

4 ‘‘(2) enacted before the date of enactment of

5 this section shall continue in effect beyond the end

6 of the first fiscal period beginning after the date of

7 enactment of this section.

8 ‘‘(b) Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to

9 appropriations for the repayment of indebtedness incurred

10 under chapter 31 or benefits payable under the old-age,

11 survivors, and disability insurance program established

12 under title II of the Social Security Act.’’.

13 Subtitle D—‘‘Pay As You Go’’ Requirement for

14 New Spending

15 SEC. 310. SPENDING OFFSETS REQUIRED.

16 It shall not be in order in either the House of Rep17 resentatives or the Senate to consider any supplemental

18 appropriation measure, or any other bill, resolution, or

19 amendment which authorizes, requires, or provides new

20 entitlements/mandatory spending as defined in section 3

21 (12)(A) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment

22 Control Act of 1974, or which authorizes spending for a

23 fiscal period that the report referred to in section 302(a)

24 of this Act indicates would in such fiscal period exceed

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1 for therein is offset fully in each such fiscal period in such

2 measure, bill, resolution or amendment by an equal

3 amount of reductions in existing spending.

4 SEC. 311. TWO-THIRDS VOTE REQUIRED TO WAIVE POINT

5 OF ORDER.

6 The point of order established by this subtitle may

7 be waived or suspended in the Senate or in the House of

8 Representatives, and an appeal of the ruling of the Chair

9 on a point of order raised under this section may be sus10 tained, only by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the

11 Members voting, a quorum being present.

12 TITLE IV—SUSTAINING MECHANISM

13 SEC. 401. AUTOMATIC CONTINUING RESOLUTION.

14 Chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amend15 ed by inserting after section 1310 the following new sec16 tion:

17 ‘‘§ 1311. Continuing appropriation

18 ‘‘(a) If for any account an appropriation for a fiscal

19 period does not become law before the beginning of such

20 fiscal period, there are hereby appropriated, out of any

21 moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and

22 out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and

23 funds, such sums as may be necessary to continue any

24 program, project, or activity provide for in the most recent

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1 the rate of operations provided for such program, project,

2 or activity in such Act. In no case shall the total dollar

3 amount of appropriations for any program, project or ac4 tivity pursuant to this section exceed the appropriation for

5 such program, project, or activity in the most recent ap6 propriation Act, determined on a fiscal-period basis.

7 ‘‘(b) Amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection

8 (a) for a program, project, or activity shall be available

9 during a fiscal period until the earlier of—

10 ‘‘(1) the day on which the appropriation bill for

11 such fiscal period which would include the program,

12 project, or activity takes effect; or

13 ‘‘(2) the last day of such fiscal period.’’.

14 SEC. 402. CONTINGENCY REGULATIONS.

15 Chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amend16 ed by inserting after section 1311 the following new sec17 tion:

18 ‘‘§ 1312. Contingency regulations

19 ‘‘(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law and

20 except as provided by subsection (b), the head of each Ex21 ecutive agency that administers any entitlement program

22 shall, by rule (or informal guideline, pending adoption of

23 appropriate rules), provide for the adjustments of benefit

24 levels or eligibility requirements, or both, with respect to

25 the program such that aggregate outlays for a fiscal period
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1 do not exceed the fixed-dollar appropriation provided pur2 suant to section 307? (requiring fixed-dollar appropria3 tions) or section 401 (providing for an Automatic Continu4 ing Resolution) of this Act for such fiscal period.

5 ‘‘(b) In the case of social safety net programs, the

6 rules shall provide each State the option of receiving an

7 aggregate amount for the fiscal period for such programs

8 equal to the amount it received for the preceding fiscal

9 period for such programs (in which case such State could,

10 in its discretion, allocate the benefits among such pro11 grams to best meet the needs of recipients in its State)

12 or the amounts it received for each such program for such

13 preceding fiscal period.

14 ‘‘(c) As used in this section—

15 ‘‘(1) the term ‘Executive agency’ has the mean16 ing given such term in section 105 of title 5, United

17 States Code;

18 ‘‘(2) the term ‘entitlement program’ means any

19 spending authority as defined in section

20 401(c)(2)(C) of the Congressional Budget Act of

21 1974; and

22 ‘‘(3) the term ‘social safety net programs’

23 means the following programs: family support pay24 ments, adoption assistance, child support enforce25 ment, food stamps, foster care, Medicaid, child nu-
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1 trition programs, social services block grant, and

2 supplemental security income (SSI).’’.

3 SEC. 403. UNAUTHORIZED APPROPRIATIONS PROHIBITED.

4 Section 401(b) is amended to read as follows:

5 ‘‘(b) CONTROLS ON LEGISLATION PROVIDING FUND6 ING.—(1) It shall not be in order in either the House of

7 Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill, resolu8 tion, or conference report that provides budget authority

9 or spending authority described in subsection (c)(2)(C) ex10 cept a bill or resolution reported by the Committee on Ap11 propriations of that House or a conference report made

12 by a committee or conference all of whose conferees are

13 member of the Committee on Appropriations.

14 ‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to benefits pay15 able under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance

16 program established under title II of the Social Security

17 Act.’’.

18 TITLE V—PROTECTION OF SOCIAL

19 SECURITY

20 SEC. 501. BENEFITS PROTECTED AGAINST DEFICIT REDUC21 TION.

22 Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require or

23 permit reductions in Social Security benefits otherwise

24 payable pursuant to applicable law or regulations.
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1 SEC. 502. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

2 Chapter 13 of title 31, United States Code, is amend3 ed by inserting after section 1313 the following new sec4 tion:

5 ‘‘§ 1314. Protection of social security from budget def6 icit reduction measures

7 ‘‘No reductions in benefits payable under the old-age,

8 survivors, and disability insurance program established

9 under title II of the Social Security Act shall be made as

10 a consequence of the Budget Process Reform Act’’.

11 TITLE VI—TIMETABLE

12 SEC. 601. REVISION OF TIMETABLE.

13 Section 300 (2 U.S.C. 631) is amended to read as

14 follows:

15 ‘‘TIMETABLE

16 ‘‘SEC. 300. The timetable with respect to the Con17 gressional budget process for any Congress (beginning

18 with the One Hundred Fourth Congress) is as follows:

‘‘On or before: Action to be completed:

First Monday in February ............ President submits short-form budget

recommendations.

February 15 ................................... Congressional Budget Office submits

report to Budget Committees.

February 25 ................................... Committees submit views and estimates to Budget Committees.

March 31 ....................................... Budget Committees report joint resolution on the budget.

April 15 ......................................... Congress completes action on joint

resolution on the budget and transmits it to the President for signature or veto.

President signs joint resolution, or

Congress overrides veto.

Authorization and appropriations bills

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‘‘On or before: Action to be completed:

15th day after enactment of joint

budget resolution.

President submits complete budget

and support documents.

June 10 ......................................... Appropriations Committees report

last of annual appropriation bills.

September 30 ................................. Congress completes action on reconciliation legislation and annual

appropriation bills.

October 1 ....................................... Fiscal period begins. Congress completes all necessary action on budget, authorizations and appropriations, or automatic continuing resolution takes effect.’’.

1 TITLE VII—CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

2 SEC. 701. CONFORMING AND TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS

3 CHANGING ‘‘CONCURRENT’’ TO ‘‘JOINT’’ RESO4 LUTIONS.

5 (a) Sections 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 308, 310,

6 and 311 (2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) are amended by striking

7 ‘‘concurrent resolutions’’ each place it appears and by in8 serting ‘‘joint resolution’’.

9 (b) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) is

10 amended by striking ‘‘Concurrent’’ in the items relating

11 to sections 301, 303, and 304 and inserting ‘‘Joint’’.

12 (c) Clauses 4(a)(2), 4(b)(2), 4(g), and 4(h) of rule

13 X, clause 8 of rule XXIII, and rule XLIX of the Rules

14 of the House of Representatives are amended by striking

15 ‘‘concurrent’’ and by inserting in its place ‘‘joint’’.

16 (d) Section 258C(b)(1) of the Deficit Control Action

17 of 1985 is amended by striking ‘‘concurrent’’ and by in18 serting ‘‘joint’’.
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1 SEC. 702. FURTHER CONFORMING AND TECHNICAL AMEND2 MENTS.

3 (a) Section 302(f) (2 U.S.C. 633(f)) is amended—

4 (1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘(1) IN THE

5 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—’’, by striking ‘‘new

6 budget authority for such fiscal year, new entitle7 ment authority effective during such fiscal year, or’’

8 and by striking ‘‘new discretionary budget authority,

9 new entitlement authority, or’’; and

10 (2) by striking paragraph (2).

11 (b) Section 303 is amended—

12 (1) in its heading by striking ‘‘NEW BUDGET

13 AUTHORITY, NEW SPENDING AUTHORITY,’’ and the

14 comma before ‘‘OR CHANGES’’;

15 (2) in subsection (a) by striking paragraphs

16 (1), (4) and (5) and by redesignating paragraphs

17 (2), (3), and (6) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), re18 spectively; and

19 (3) in subsection (b) by striking paragraph

20 (1)(A), by striking ‘‘(B)’’, by striking the dash after

21 ‘‘resolution’’, and by striking the last sentence.

22 (c) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) is

23 amended by striking ‘‘new budget authority, new spending

24 authority,’’ and the comma before ‘‘or changes’’ in the

25 item relating to section 303.

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1 (1) in its heading by striking ‘‘NEW BUDGET

2 AUTHORITY, NEW SPENDING AUTHORITY, AND’’;

3 (2) in subsection (a)(1) by striking ‘‘providing

4 new budget authority for such fiscal year, providing

5 new entitlement authority effective during such fis6 cal year, or’’; by striking ‘‘the appropriate level of

7 total new budget authority or total budget outlays

8 set forth in the most recently agreed to concurrent

9 resolution on the budget to be exceeded, or’’;

10 (3) by repealing subsection (b); and

11 (4) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub12 section (b), and by striking ‘‘new budget authority,

13 budget outlays, new entitlement authority, and’’ in

14 subsection (c) (as redesignated).

15 (e) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) is

16 amended by striking ‘‘new budget authority, new spending

17 authority, and’’ in the item relating to section 311.

18 (f) The last sentence of clause 4(b) of rule XI of the

19 Rules of the House of Representatives is amended by in20 serting before the period at the end of the following: ‘‘;

21 nor shall it report any rule or order which would waive

22 any point of order set forth in title III of the Budget Proc23 ess Reform Act’’.

24 (g) The first sentence of section 202(f)(1) of the Con25 gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended to read as fol-
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1 lows: ‘‘On or before February 15 of each year, the Direc2 tor shall submit to the Committees on the Budget of the

3 House of Representatives and the Senate a report, for the

4 fiscal year commencing on October 1 of that year, with

5 respect to fiscal policy, including (A) estimated budget

6 outlays in all functions and subfunctions for appropriated

7 accounts for the current fiscal year and estimated budget

8 outlays under current law for all entitlement programs for

9 the next fiscal year, (B) alternative levels of total reve10 nues, total new budget authority, and total outlays (in11 cluding related surpluses and deficits), and (C) the levels

12 of tax expenditures under existing law, taking into account

13 projected economic factors and any changes in such levels

14 based on proposals in the budget submitted by the Presi15 dent for such fiscal year.’’.

16 SEC. 703. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE IMPOUND17 MENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974.

18 (a) Section 1011(5) (2 U.S.C. 682(5)) is amended—

19 (1) by striking ‘‘1012, and’’ and inserting

20 ‘‘1012, the 20-day periods referred to in paragraphs

21 (1)(b) and (2)(A) of section 1013(c), the 45-day pe22 riod referred to in section 1013(b), and’’;

23 (2) by striking ‘‘1012 during’’ and inserting

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1 (3) by striking ‘‘of 45’’ and inserting ‘‘of the

2 applicable number of’’; and

3 (4) by striking ‘‘45-day period referred to in

4 paragraph (3) of this section and in section 1012’’

5 and inserting ‘‘period or periods of time applicable

6 under such section’’.

7 (b) Section 1011 is further amended—

8 (1) in paragraph (4) by striking ‘‘1013’’ and in9 serting ‘‘1014’’; and

10 (2) in paragraph (5)—

11 (A) by striking ‘‘1016’’ and inserting

12 ‘‘1017’’; and

13 (B) by striking ‘‘1017(b)(1)’’ and inserting

14 ‘‘1018(b)(1)’’.

15 (c) Section 1015 (as redesignated) is amended—

16 (1) by striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place it

17 appears and inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or 1014’’;

18 (2) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ‘‘1012’’ and

19 inserting ‘‘1012 or 1013’’;

20 (3) in subsection (b)(2) by striking ‘‘1013’’ and

21 inserting ‘‘1014’’; and

22 (4) in subsection (e)(1)—

23 (A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub24 paragraph (A),
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1 (B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as

2 subparagraph (C),

3 (C) by striking ‘‘1013’’ in subparagraph

4 (C) (as redesignated), and

5 (D) by inserting after subparagraph (A)

6 the following new subparagraph:

7 ‘‘(B) he has transmitted a special message

8 under section 1013 with respect to a proposed

9 rescission; and’’.

10 (d) Section 1016 (as redesignated) is amended by

11 striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place it appears and insert12 ing ‘‘1012, 1013, or 1014’’.

13 (e) Section 1012(b) is amended by inserting before

14 the last sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘The preced15 ing sentence shall not apply to any item of budget author16 ity proposed by the President to be rescinded under this

17 section that the President has also proposed to rescind

18 under section 1013 and with respect to which the 45-day

19 period referred to in subsection (e) of such section has

20 not expired.’’.

21 (f) The table of sections set forth in section 1(b) is

22 amended—

23 (1) by redesignating the items relating to sec24 tions 1013 through 1017 as items relating to sec25 tions through 1018, respectively; and
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1 (2) by inserting after the item relating to sec2 tion 1012 the following new item:

‘‘Sec. 1013. Rescission of spending outside of congressional budget.’’.

3 SEC. 704. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO TITLE 31, UNITED

4 STATES CODE.

5 (a) The analysis of chapter 13 of title 31, United

6 States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat7 ing to section 1310 the following new items:

‘‘Sec. 1311. Continuing appropriation.

‘‘Sec. 1312. Contingency regulations.

‘‘Sec. 1313. Appropriations must be biennial.

‘‘Sec. 1314. Protection of Social Security from budget deficit reduction measures.’’.

8 (b) Paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31,

9 United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

10 ‘‘(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this

11 section—

12 ‘‘(A) estimated expenditures and proposed

13 appropriations for each function and

14 subfunction in the current fiscal year;

15 ‘‘(B) estimated expenditures and proposed

16 appropriations the President decides are nec17 essary to support the Government for each

18 function and subfunction in the fiscal year for

19 which the budget is submitted; and

20 ‘‘(C) a comparison of levels of estimated

21 expenditures and proposed appropriations for

22 each function and subfunction in the current
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1 fiscal year and the fiscal year for which the

2 budget is submitted, along with the proposed

3 increase or decrease of spending in percentage

4 terms for each function and subfunction;’’.

5 (b) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code,

6 is amended—

7 (1) in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘on a sin8 gle page, which sets forth specific budget ceilings for

9 that fiscal period in the nineteen major functional

10 categories described in section 201 of the Budget

11 Process Reform Act’’ before the period; and

12 (2) by repealing the second sentence and all of

13 the third sentence preceding the colon and inserting

14 the following: ‘‘On or before the fifteenth day after

15 a joint resolution on the budget for that budget pe16 riod is enacted, the President shall submit a detailed

17 budget for that fiscal period, including a budget

18 message and summary and supporting information,

19 as follows’’.

20 TITLE VIII—DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF

21 INTERPRETATION

22 SEC. 801. DEFINITIONS.

23 (a) DEFINITION OF BUDGET LAW.—Section 3(4) (2

24 U.S.C. 622(4)), containing general definitions under the

25 Budget Act is amended to read as follows:
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1 ‘‘(4) The term ‘budget law’ or ‘joint resolution

2 on the budget’ means—

3 ‘‘(A) a joint resolution setting forth the

4 simplified budget for the United States Govern5 ment for a fiscal period as provided in section

6 301; and

7 ‘‘(B) any other joint resolution revising the

8 budget for the United States Government for a

9 fiscal period as described in section 304.’’.

10 (b) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 (2 U.S.C. 622)

11 is further amended by adding at the end the following new

12 paragraphs:

13 ‘‘(11) The term ‘major functional category’ re14 fers to the groupings of budget authority, budget

15 outlays, and credit authority (including continuing

16 appropriations pursuant to section 1331 of title 31,

17 United States Code) into any one of the following:

18 ‘‘Function 050: National Defense

19 ‘‘Function 150: International Affairs

20 ‘‘Function 250: General Science, Space

21 and Technology

22 ‘‘Function 270: Energy

23 ‘‘Function 300: Natural Resources and

24 Environment

25 ‘‘Function 350: Agriculture
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1 ‘‘Function 400: Transportation

2 ‘‘Function 450: Community and Regional

3 Development

4 ‘‘Function 500: Education, Training, Em5 ployment and Social Services

6 ‘‘Function 550: Health

7 ‘‘Function 570: Medicare

8 ‘‘Function 600: Income Security

9 ‘‘Function 650: Social Security

10 ‘‘Function 700: Veterans Benefits and

11 Services

12 ‘‘Function 750: Administration of Justice

13 ‘‘Function 800: General Government

14 ‘‘Function 900: Net Interest

15 ‘‘Function 920: Allowances

16 ‘‘Function 950: Undistributed Offsetting

17 Receipts.’’.

18 ‘‘(12) The term ‘budget ceiling’ means the dol19 lar amount set forth in a budget law for a major

20 functional category.

21 ‘‘(13) The term ‘spending bill’ means any bill or

22 resolution, or amendment thereto or conference re23 port thereon, which provides budget authority,

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1 ‘‘(14) The term ‘fiscal period’ means the twelve2 month fiscal year beginning October 1 currently in

3 use, or any other fiscal period (such as a biennial

4 period) that may subsequently be adopted for the

5 management of the budget of the United States.’’.

6 SEC. 802. AMENDMENTS TO CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND

7 IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974.

8 Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever any

9 provision of this Act is expressed as an amendment to a

10 section or other provision, the reference shall be deemed

11 to be made to a section or other provision of the Congres12 sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

13 SEC. 803. USE OF TERMS.

14 Whenever any term is used in this Act which is de15 fined in section 3 of the Congressional Budget Impound16 ment Control Act of 1974, the term shall have the mean17 ing given to such term in that Act.

18 TITLE IX—EFFECTIVE DATE

19 SEC. 901. GENERAL PROVISION.

20 Except as provided in section 902, this Act and the

21 amendments made by it shall become effective January 1,

22 1995, and shall apply to fiscal periods beginning after

23 September 30, 1995.

24 SEC. 902. FISCAL YEAR 1995.

25 Notwithstanding subsection (a), the provisions of—
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1 (1) the Congressional Budget Impoundment

2 Control Act of 1974,

3 (2) title 31, United States Code, and

4 (3) the Balanced Budget and Emergency Defi5 cit Control Act of 1985 (as such provisions were in

6 effect on the day before the effective date of this

7 Act),

8 shall apply to the fiscal year beginning on October 1,

9 1994.

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