(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) The heading 
of section 252(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘ELIMINATING A DIRECT SPENDING INCREASE.—’’. 
(2) Paragraphs (1), (2), and (4) of section 252(d) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 are amended by striking ‘‘or receipts’’ each 
place it appears. 
(3) Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by 
striking ‘‘or receipts’’ and by striking ‘‘, outlays, and re-
ceipts’’ and inserting ‘‘and outlays’’. 
(4) Section 254(c)(3) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A) by striking ‘‘net deficit 
increase or decrease’’ and by inserting ‘‘net increase 
or decrease in direct spending’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B) by striking ‘‘amount 
of deficit increase or decrease’’ and by inserting ‘‘in-
crease or decrease in direct spending’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (C) by striking ‘‘a deficit 
increase’’ and by inserting ‘‘an increase in direct 
spending’’.
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 250(c) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graphs: 
‘‘(20) The term ‘advance appropriation’ means 
appropriations that first become available one fiscal 
year or more beyond the fiscal year for which an ap-
propriation Act making such funds available is en-
acted. 
‘‘(21)(A) Except as provided by subparagraph 
(B), the term ‘emergency requirement’ means any 
provision that provides new budget authority and re-
sulting outlays for a situation that poses a threat to 
life, property, or national security and is—
‘‘(i) sudden, quickly coming into being, and 
not building up over time; 
‘‘(ii) an urgent, pressing, and compelling 
need requiring immediate action; 
‘‘(iii) subject to subparagraph (B), unfore-
seen, unpredictable, and unanticipated; and 
‘‘(iv) not permanent, temporary in nature. 
‘‘(B) An emergency that is part of an aggregate 
level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when 
normally estimated in advance, is not unforeseen.’’.
(b) FIRE SUPPRESSION; CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 
RELATED
TO GLOBAL WAR
ON TERRORISM.—Section 
251(b)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new subparagraph: 
‘‘(I) FIRE SUPPRESSION.—(i) If a bill or 
joint resolution is enacted that provides new 
budget authority for wildland fire suppression 
for fiscal year 2005 or fiscal year 2006 that 
would cause the level of total new budget au-
thority for wildland fire suppression to exceed 
the base amount for that fiscal year, the adjust-
ment for that fiscal year shall be the additional 
new budget authority provided for such purpose 
and the additional outlays flowing from such 
amounts, but shall not exceed—
‘‘(I) for the Forest Service for fiscal year 
2005 or fiscal year 2006 (as applicable), 
$400,000,000; and 
‘‘(II) for the Department of the Interior 
for fiscal year 2005 or fiscal year 2006 (as ap-
plicable), $100,000,000. 
‘‘(ii) For this subparagraph, the term ‘‘base 
amount’’ refers to the average of the obligations of 
the 10 fiscal years preceding the current year for
wildfire suppression in the Forest Service and in the 
Department of the Interior, as calculated by OMB, 
but for fiscal year 2005 the base amount is 
$880,000,000. 
‘‘(J) CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS RELATED 
TO GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—If, for fiscal 
year 2005, appropriations for discretionary ac-
counts are enacted for contingency operations 
related to the global war on terrorism that, pur-
suant to this subparagraph, the President des-
ignates as a contingency operation related to 
the global war on terrorism and the Congress 
so designates in statute, the adjustment shall be 
the total of such appropriations in discretionary 
accounts so designated, but not to exceed 
$50,000,000,000, and the outlays flowing in all 
fiscal years from such appropriations.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The second sen-
tence of section 250(c)(4)(A) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to 
read as follows: ‘‘The general purpose discretionary cat-
egory shall consist of accounts designated in the joint ex-
planatory statement of managers accompanying the con-
ference report on the Spending Control Act of 2004.’’.
SEC. 8. PROJECTIONS UNDER SECTION 257. 
Section 257(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by inserting 
after paragraph (6) the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) EMERGENCIES.—New budgetary resources 
designated 
under 
section 
251(b)(2)(A) 
or 
251(b)(2)(J) shall not be assumed beyond the fiscal 
year for which they have been enacted.’’. 
SEC. 9. EXCEPTION FOR OUTLAY COMPONENTS OF EXPIR-
ING RECEIPTS LEGISLATION. 
Section 252(d)(4) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end of subparagraph (A), by striking the 
period and inserting ‘‘; and’’ at the end of subparagraph 
(B), and by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(C) extending provisions in the Economic 
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 
2001 or provisions in sections 101 through 104, 
section 202, or sections 301 and 302 of the 
Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 
of 2003.’’. 
SEC. 10. REPORTS. 
Subsections (c)(2) and (f)(2)(A) of section 254 of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 are amended by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting
‘‘2006 (or 2009 solely for purposes of enforcing the discre-
tionary spending limits for the highway and mass transit 
categories)’’. 
SEC. 11. EXPIRATION. 
Section 275(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking 
‘‘2002’’ and inserting ‘‘2006 (or 2009 solely for purposes 
of enforcing the discretionary spending limits for the high-
way and mass transit categories)’’ and by striking ‘‘2006’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2013’’. 
SEC. 12. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO THE BALANCED 
BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL 
ACT OF 1985. 
Part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985 is amended as follows: 
(1) In section 250(a), strike ‘‘SEC. 256. GEN-
ERAL 
AND 
SPECIAL 
SEQUESTRATION 
RULES’’ and insert ‘‘Sec. 256. General and special 
sequestration rules’’ in the item relating to section 
256. 
(2) In subparagraphs (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), 
and (K) of section 250(c)(4), insert ‘‘subparagraph’’ 
after ‘‘described in’’ each place it appears. 
(3) In section 250(c)(18), insert ‘‘of’’ after ‘‘ex-
penses’’.