IV 

114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 389 

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to lower the threshold 

at which the gross budgetary effect of a piece of legislation requires 

the cost estimates provided for the legislation to incorporate macroeconomic variables resulting from the legislation, and to require the 

cost estimates provided for appropriation bills and joint resolutions to 

incorporate such variables. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 28, 2015 

Mr. DELANEY (for himself, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. HANNA) submitted the 

following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules 

RESOLUTION 

Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to 

lower the threshold at which the gross budgetary effect 

of a piece of legislation requires the cost estimates provided for the legislation to incorporate macroeconomic 

variables resulting from the legislation, and to require 

the cost estimates provided for appropriation bills and 

joint resolutions to incorporate such variables. 

1 Resolved, 

2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

3 This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Honest Dynamic 

4 Scoring Resolution’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF TYPES OF LEGISLATION SUBJECT 

2 TO DYNAMIC SCORING IN COST ESTIMATES. 

3 (a) LOWERING THRESHOLD OF ECONOMIC IM4 PACT.—Clause 8(d)(1)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

5 House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘0.25 

6 percent of the current projected gross domestic product 

7 for that fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘1 percent of the total 

8 amount of discretionary spending in the most recently 

9 ended fiscal year’’. 

10 (b) APPLYING REQUIREMENT TO APPROPRIATION

11 BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.— 

12 (1) IN GENERAL.—Clause 8 of rule XIII of the 

13 Rules of the House of Representatives is amended— 

14 (A) by redesignating paragraphs (c) and 

15 (d) as paragraphs (d) and (e); and 

16 (B) by inserting after paragraph (b) the 

17 following new paragraph: 

18 ‘‘(c)(1) An estimate provided by the Congressional 

19 Budget Office for the Committee on Appropriations for 

20 any appropriation bill or joint resolution under section 

21 202(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall, to 

22 the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects 

23 of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, 

24 and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such 

25 bill or joint resolution. The preceding sentence shall only 

26 apply to an estimate with respect to an appropriation bill 


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1 or joint resolution, or portion thereof, that funds a project, 

2 program, or activity authorized by major legislation (as 

3 described in paragraph (e)). 

4 ‘‘(2) If the Office provides a range of estimates in 

5 addition to a central value under paragraph (1) with re6 spect to such a bill or joint resolution, the central value 

7 within such range shall be used for official scoring pur8 poses. 

9 ‘‘(3) Notwithstanding the requirements of subpara10 graph (1), the Congressional Budget Office may use tradi11 tional scoring methods when providing such an estimate 

12 if the estimate will be the same under such method and 

13 under the method prescribed by such subparagraph.’’. 

14 (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Clause 

15 8(d)(1) of such rule, as redesignated by paragraph 

16 (1)(A), is amended by striking ‘‘paragraphs (a) and 

17 (b)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (a), (b), and (c)’’. 

18 (3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The heading of 

19 clause 8 of such rule is amended by striking 

20 ‘‘major legislation’’ and inserting ‘‘major leg21 islation and appropriation bills and joint 

22 resolutions’’. 

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