culated using the assumption that the leg-
islation submitted by the Commission has 
been enacted into law, subject to the limi-
tation imposed by section 413(d). 
(iii) WAIVER OF POINT OF ORDER.— 
A point of order raised under clause (i) 
may only be waived or suspended in the 
Senate by an affirmative vote of 3⁄5 of the 
members duly chosen and sworn. 
(D) MULTIPLE
AMENDMENTS.—If more 
than one amendment is offered under this para-
graph, then each amendment shall be consid-
ered separately, and the amendment receiving 
both a majority and the highest number of 
votes shall be the amendment adopted. 
(d) PROHIBITION ON CONCURRENT CONSIDERATION 
OF OTHER BUDGET-RELATED LEGISLATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Until a bill or joint resolu-
tion considered pursuant to the procedures of this 
section or a conference report thereon has been en-
rolled and presented to the President of the United 
States, it shall not be in order in either the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill 
or joint resolution, amendment or motion thereto, or 
conference report thereon that— 
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(A) provides new budget authority for any 
fiscal year; 
(B) provides for an increase in outlays for 
any fiscal year; 
(C) provides a decrease in revenues during 
any fiscal year; or 
(D) provides an increase in the public debt 
limit to become effective during any fiscal year. 
Subparagraphs (A) through (D) shall be applied on 
a provision-by-provision basis. 
(2) EXCEPTIONS.—Paragraph (1) does not 
apply— 
(A) to any measure under consideration 
prior to the introduction, in either House, of a 
bill or joint resolution considered pursuant to 
the procedures of this section; 
(B) to any measure considered after a bill 
or joint resolution considered pursuant to the 
procedures of this section has been defeated in 
either House; or 
(C) to any general appropriation bill or 
amendment thereto, but only to the extent of 
discretionary new budget authority provided for 
the budget year or for the first or second fiscal 
year after the budget year. 
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(3) WAIVER.— 
(A) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—In the 
House of Representatives, if a special rule is 
considered that would waive points of order 
pursuant to paragraph (1), a motion to strike 
the provision waiving such points of order shall 
be in order. 
(B) SENATE.—In the Senate, a point of 
order properly raised pursuant to paragraph (1) 
shall be waived only by an affirmative vote of 
2⁄3 of the members senators duly chosen and 
sworn. 
(e) APPLICATION
OF
CONGRESSIONAL
BUDGET 
ACT.—To the extent that they are relevant and not incon-
sistent with this title, the provisions of title III of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 shall apply in the House 
of Representatives and the Senate to any bill or joint reso-
lution, any amendment thereto, and any conference report 
thereon that is considered pursuant to this section. 
(f) RULES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
TIVES.—This section is enacted by Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, re-
spectively, and is deemed to be part of the rules of 
each House, respectively, but applicable only with re-
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spect to the procedure to be followed in that House 
in the case of a bill introduced pursuant to this sec-
tion, and it supersedes other rules only to the extent 
that it is inconsistent with such rules; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional 
right of either House to change the rules (so far as 
they relate to the procedure of that House) at any 
time, in the same manner, and to the same extent 
as in the case of any other rule of that House. 
SEC. 413. LONG-TERM CBO COST ESTIMATE. 
(a) PREPARATION
AND
SUBMISSION.—When the 
Commission, the President, or the chairman or ranking 
minority member of the Committee on the Budget of ei-
ther House submits a written request to the Director of 
the Congressional Budget Office for a long-term CBO cost 
estimate of legislation proposed under this title or an 
amendment referred to in section 412(b)(3)(B) or section 
412(c)(3)(B), the Director shall prepare the estimate and 
have it published in the Congressional Record as expedi-
tiously as possible. 
(b) CONTENT.—A long-term CBO cost estimate shall 
include— 
(1) an estimate of the cost of each provision (if 
practicable) or group of provisions of the legislation 
or amendment for first fiscal year it would take ef-
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fect and for each of the 49 fiscal years thereafter; 
and 
(2) a statement of any estimated future costs 
not reflected by the estimate described in paragraph 
(1). 
(c) FORM.—To the extent that a long-term CBO cost 
estimate presented in dollars is impracticable, the Director 
of the Congressional Budget Office may instead present 
the estimate in terms of percentages of gross domestic 
product, with rounding to the nearest 1⁄10 of 1 percent 
of gross domestic product. 
(d) LIMITATIONS ON DISCRETIONARY SPENDING.— 
A long-term CBO cost estimate shall only consider the ef-
fects of provisions affecting revenues and direct spending 
(as defined by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985), and shall not assume that any 
changes in outlays will result from limitations on, or re-
ductions in, annual appropriations. 
Æ 
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