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extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects of changes 
in economic output, employment, capital stock, and other macro-
economic variables resulting from such major legislation. 
(b) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in subsection (a) shall, 
to the extent practicable, include— 
(1) a qualitative assessment of the budgetary effects 
(including macroeconomic variables described in subsection (a)) 
of the major legislation in the 20-fiscal year period beginning 
after the last fiscal year of the most recently agreed to concur-
rent resolution on the budget that sets forth budgetary levels 
required under section 301 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632); and 
(2) an identification of the critical assumptions and the 
source of data underlying that estimate. 
(c) DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS.—Any estimate referred to in sub-
section (a) shall, to the extent practicable, include the distributional 
effects across income categories resulting from major legislation. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) MAJOR
LEGISLATION.—The term ‘‘major legislation’’ 
means a bill, joint resolution, conference report, amendment, 
amendment between the Houses, or treaty considered in the 
Senate— 
(A) for which an estimate is required to be prepared 
pursuant to section 402 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) and that causes a gross budgetary 
effect (before incorporating macroeconomic effects and not 
including timing shifts) in a fiscal year in the period of 
years of the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution 
on the budget equal to or greater than— 
(i) 0.25 percent of the current projected gross 
domestic product of the United States for that fiscal 
year; or 
(ii) for a treaty, equal to or greater than 
$15,000,000,000 for that fiscal year; or 
(B) designated as such by— 
(i) the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
of the Senate for all direct spending and revenue legis-
lation; or 
(ii) the Senator who is Chairman or Vice Chairman 
of the Joint Committee on Taxation for revenue legisla-
tion. 
(2) BUDGETARY
EFFECTS.—The term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ 
means changes in revenues, direct spending outlays, and defi-
cits. 
(3) TIMING SHIFTS.—The term ‘‘timing shifts’’ means— 
(A) provisions that cause a delay of the date on which 
outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise occur 
from one fiscal year to the next fiscal year; or 
(B) provisions that cause an acceleration of the date 
on which revenues would otherwise occur from one fiscal 
year to the prior fiscal year. 
SEC. 4108. ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY FOR AMENDMENTS TO STATU-
TORY CAPS. 
During the 115th Congress, if a measure becomes law that 
amends the discretionary spending limits established under section 
251(c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
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of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(c)), such as a measure increasing the limit 
for the revised security category for fiscal year 2018 to be 
$640,000,000,000, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
of the Senate may adjust the allocation called for under section 
302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) 
to the appropriate committee or committees of the Senate, and 
may adjust all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and 
limits contained in this resolution, as necessary, consistent with 
such measure. 
SEC. 4109. ADJUSTMENT FOR WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION FUNDING IN 
THE SENATE. 
During the 115th Congress, if a measure becomes law that 
amends the adjustments to discretionary spending limits estab-
lished under section 251(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)) to provide for wildfire 
suppression funding, which may include criteria for making such 
an adjustment, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget 
of the Senate may adjust the allocation called for in section 302(a) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633(a)) to the 
appropriate committee or committees of the Senate, and may adjust 
all other budgetary aggregates, allocations, levels, and limits con-
tained in this concurrent resolution, as necessary, consistent with 
such measure. 
SEC. 4110. ADJUSTMENT FOR IMPROVED OVERSIGHT OF SPENDING. 
(a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—If a measure 
becomes law that decreases direct spending (budget authority and 
outlays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year and provides for 
an authorization of appropriations for the same purpose, the Chair-
man of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may decrease 
the allocation to the committee of the Senate with jurisdiction 
of the direct spending by an amount equal to the amount of the 
decrease in direct spending and may revise the aggregates and 
other appropriate levels in this resolution and make adjustments 
to the pay-as-you-go ledger in the amounts necessary to accommo-
date the decrease in direct spending. 
(b) DETERMINATIONS.—For purposes of this section, the levels 
of budget authority and outlays shall be determined on the basis 
of estimates submitted by the Chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget of the Senate. 
SEC. 4111. REPEAL OF CERTAIN LIMITATIONS. 
Sections 3205 and 3206 of S. Con. Res. 11 (114th Congress), 
the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2016, are 
repealed. 
SEC. 4112. EMERGENCY LEGISLATION. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO DESIGNATE.—In the Senate, with respect 
to a provision of direct spending or receipts legislation or appropria-
tions for discretionary accounts that Congress designates as an 
emergency requirement in such measure, the amounts of new 
budget authority, outlays, and receipts in all fiscal years resulting 
from that provision shall be treated as an emergency requirement 
for the purpose of this section. 
(b) EXEMPTION OF EMERGENCY PROVISIONS.—Any new budget 
authority, outlays, and receipts resulting from any provision des-
ignated as an emergency requirement, pursuant to this section,
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in any bill, joint resolution, amendment, amendment between the 
Houses, or conference report shall not count for purposes of sections 
302 and 311 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
633 and 642), section 4106 of this resolution, section 3101 of S. 
Con. Res. 11 (114th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the 
budget for fiscal year 2016, and sections 401 and 404 of S. Con. 
Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for fiscal year 2010. Designated emergency provisions shall not 
count for the purpose of revising allocations, aggregates, or other 
levels pursuant to procedures established under section 301(b)(7) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 632(b)(7)) for 
deficit-neutral reserve funds and revising discretionary spending 
limits set pursuant to section 301 of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Con-
gress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010. 
(c) DESIGNATIONS.—If a provision of legislation is designated 
as an emergency requirement under this section, the committee 
report and any statement of managers accompanying that legisla-
tion shall include an explanation of the manner in which the 
provision meets the criteria in subsection (f). 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms ‘‘direct spending’’, 
‘‘receipts’’, and ‘‘appropriations for discretionary accounts’’ mean 
any provision of a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, amend-
ment between the Houses, or conference report that affects direct 
spending, receipts, or appropriations as those terms have been 
defined and interpreted for purposes of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.). 
(e) POINT OF ORDER.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—When the Senate is considering a bill, 
resolution, amendment, motion, amendment between the 
Houses, or conference report, if a point of order is made by 
a Senator against an emergency designation in that measure, 
that provision making such a designation shall be stricken 
from the measure and may not be offered as an amendment 
from the floor. 
(2) SUPERMAJORITY WAIVER AND APPEALS.— 
(A) WAIVER.—Paragraph (1) may be waived or sus-
pended in the Senate only by an affirmative vote of three- 
fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 
(B) APPEALS.—Appeals in the Senate from the decisions 
of the Chair relating to any provision of this subsection 
shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, 
and controlled by, the appellant and the manager of the 
bill or joint resolution, as the case may be. An affirmative 
vote of three-fifths of the Members of the Senate, duly 
chosen and sworn, shall be required to sustain an appeal 
of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under 
this subsection. 
(3) DEFINITION OF AN EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—For pur-
poses of paragraph (1), a provision shall be considered an 
emergency designation if it designates any item as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to this subsection. 
(4) FORM OF THE POINT OF ORDER.—A point of order under 
paragraph (1) may be raised by a Senator as provided in 
section 313(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
644(e)). 
(5) CONFERENCE REPORTS.—When the Senate is considering 
a conference report on, or an amendment between the Houses
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in relation to, a bill, upon a point of order being made by 
any Senator pursuant to this section, and such point of order 
being sustained, such material contained in such conference 
report shall be stricken, and the Senate shall proceed to con-
sider the question of whether the Senate shall recede from 
its amendment and concur with a further amendment, or concur 
in the House amendment with a further amendment, as the 
case may be, which further amendment shall consist of only 
that portion of the conference report or House amendment, 
as the case may be, not so stricken. Any such motion in the 
Senate shall be debatable. In any case in which such point 
of order is sustained against a conference report (or Senate 
amendment derived from such conference report by operation 
of this subsection), no further amendment shall be in order. 
(f) CRITERIA.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of this section, any provision 
is an emergency requirement if the situation addressed by 
such provision is— 
(A) necessary, essential, or vital (not merely useful 
or beneficial); 
(B) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building 
up over time; 
(C) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring 
immediate action; 
(D) subject to paragraph (2), unforeseen, unpredictable, 
and unanticipated; and 
(E) not permanent, temporary in nature. 
(2) UNFORESEEN.—An emergency that is part of an aggre-
gate level of anticipated emergencies, particularly when nor-
mally estimated in advance, is not unforeseen. 
(g) INAPPLICABILITY.—In the Senate, section 403 of S. Con. 
Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget 
for fiscal year 2010, shall no longer apply. 
SEC. 4113. ENFORCEMENT FILING IN THE SENATE. 
If this concurrent resolution on the budget is agreed to by 
the Senate and House of Representatives without the appointment 
of a committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two 
Houses, the Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
Senate may submit a statement for publication in the Congressional 
Record containing— 
(1) for the Committee on Appropriations, committee alloca-
tions for fiscal year 2018 consistent with the levels in title 
I for the purpose of enforcing section 302 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633); 
(2) for all committees other than the Committee on Appro-
priations, committee allocations for fiscal years 2018, 2018 
through 2022, and 2018 through 2027 consistent with the levels 
in title I for the purpose of enforcing section 302 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 633); and 
(3) a list of programs, projects, activities, or accounts identi-
fied for advanced appropriations that would have been identi-
fied in the joint explanatory statement of managers accom-
panying this concurrent resolution.