information on outlays for the current fiscal period
and the decisions reached to set funding for the sub-
sequent fiscal periods;’’.
SEC. 603. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE IMPOUND-
MENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974.
(a) Section 1014 of the Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘1012 or 1013’’ each place it
appears and inserting ‘‘1012, 1013, or 1013A’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(1) by striking ‘‘1012’’ and
inserting ‘‘1012 or 1013A’’; and
(3) in subsection (e)(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at
the end of subparagraph (A), by redesignating sub-
paragraph (B) as subparagraph (C), by striking
‘‘1013’’ in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated), and
by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following
new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) he has transmitted a special message
under section 1013A with respect to a proposed
rescission; and’’.
(b) Section 1015 is amended by striking ‘‘1012 or
1013’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘1012, 1013,
or 1013A’’.
(c) Section 1012(b) is amended by inserting before
the last sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘The preced-
ing sentence shall not apply to any item or portion of any
item of budget authority proposed by the President to be
rescinded under this section that the President has also
proposed to rescind under section 1013A and with respect
to which the 45-day period referred to in subsection (e)
of such section has not expired.’’.
(d) The table of sections set forth in section 1(b) is
amended by inserting after the item relating to section
1013 the following new item:
‘‘Sec. 1013A. Rescission of spending outside of congressional budget.’’.
SEC. 604. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED
STATES CODE.
(a)(1) Paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this
section, estimated expenditures and appropriations
for the current fiscal period and estimated expendi-
tures and proposed appropriations the President de-
cides are necessary to support the Government in
the fiscal period for which the budget is submitted
and the 4 years following that period;’’.
(2) Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘current fiscal period and
the’’ before ‘‘fiscal year’’.
(3) Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (A), by striking the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’
at the end of subparagraph (B), and by adding at the end
the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(C) the estimated amount for the same activ-
ity (if any) in the current fiscal period.’’.
(4) Section 1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States
Code, is amended by inserting ‘‘new budget authority
and’’ before ‘‘budget outlays’’.
(5) Section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(32) a comparison of levels of estimated ex-
penditures and proposed appropriations for each
function and subfunction in the current fiscal period
and the fiscal period for which the budget is submit-
ted, along with the proposed increase or decrease of
spending in percentage terms for each function and
subfunction.’’.
(b) Section 1109(a) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by adding after the first sentence the following
new sentence: ‘‘These estimates shall not include any ad-
justment for inflation.’’.
(c) Section 1104(c) of title 31, United States Code,
is amended by striking the second and third sentences and
inserting the following new sentence: ‘‘However, a func-
tional category in the budget may be changed only by law
and the subfunctions comprising any such category may
also only be changed by law except to the extent necessary
to initially establish appropriate subfunctions within func-
tional category 950 (natural disasters).’’.
(d) Section 1312(b) of title 31, United States Code,
as added by section 402 of this Act, is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following new sentence: ‘‘The deci-
sion of a State to receive either an aggregate amount for
such programs (and its allocation of benefits among such
programs) or the amounts it received for, each such pro-
gram shall not be reviewable in any Federal court.’’.
(e) The analysis of chapter 13 of title 31, United
States Code, is amended by inserting after the item relat-
ing to section 1310 the following new items:
‘‘Sec. 1311. Automatic continuing resolution.
‘‘Sec. 1312. Contingency regulations for automatic continuing resolution.
‘‘Sec. 1313. Budget authority and entitlement authority must cover single fiscal
period.
‘‘Sec. 1314. Protection of Social Security from budget deficit reduction meas-
ures.
‘‘Sec. 1315. Contingency regulations for former ‘blank-check’ spending pro-
grams.’’.
TITLE VII—DEFINITIONS AND
RULES OF INTERPRETATION
SEC. 701. DEFINITIONS.
(a) DEFINITION OF BUDGET LAW.—Section 3(4) of
the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(4)), containing general definitions,
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(4) The term ‘budget law’ or ‘joint resolution
on the budget’ means—
‘‘(A) a joint resolution setting forth the
simplified budget for the United States Govern-
ment for a fiscal period as provided in section
301; and
‘‘(B) any other joint resolution revising the
budget for the United States Government for a
fiscal period as described in section 304.’’.
(b) CHANGING DEFINITION OF BUDGET AUTHORITY
TO EXCLUDE OFFSETTING RECEIPTS.—Section 3(2)(A)
of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control
Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(2)(A)) is amended by inserting
‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (ii), by striking ‘‘; and’’ at
the end of clause (iii), and by striking clause (iv).
(c) ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of
1974 (2 U.S.C. 622) is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(11) The term ‘major functional category’ re-
fers to a grouping of budget authority, budget out-
lays, and credit authority into any one of the follow-
ing categories: