TITLE 
II—DIRECT 
SPENDING 
PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO AN-
NUAL APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 201. ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED FOR DI-
RECT SPENDING PROGRAMS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is further amended by adding after 
section 316, as added by section 106(a) of this Act, the 
following: 
‘‘ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS REQUIRED FOR DIRECT 
SPENDING PROGRAMS 
‘‘SEC. 317. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, in the biennium beginning in fiscal year 2022 and 
each biennium thereafter— 
‘‘(1) each direct spending program shall be subject 
to annual discretionary appropriations; and 
‘‘(2) no funds may be obligated for any such program 
using any amounts other than amounts provided in ad-
vance in appropriations Acts. 
‘‘(b) In this section— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘biennium’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 3(13); and 
‘‘(2) the term ‘direct spending program’— 
‘‘(A) means— 
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‘‘(i) any program with respect to 
which budget authority is provided (before 
the date of enactment of this section) by 
law other than appropriation Acts; 
‘‘(ii) any program that is funded (be-
fore the date of enactment of this section) 
through entitlement authority; and 
‘‘(iii) the Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program; and 
‘‘(B) does not include— 
‘‘(i) the old-age and survivors insur-
ance program established under title II of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et 
seq.), but not including disability insurance 
benefits under section 223 of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 423); 
‘‘(ii) Medicare programs; 
‘‘(iii) all programs administered by 
the Department of Veterans Affairs; and 
‘‘(iv) the TRICARE program (as de-
fined in section 1072 of title 10, United 
States Code).’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
set forth in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended 
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by inserting after the item relating to section 316 the fol-
lowing new items: 
‘‘Sec. 317. Annual appropriations required for direct spending programs.’’. 
(c) PRESIDENT’S
BUDGET
SUBMISSION.—Section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, as amended by 
section 122(b)(12), is further amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(45) such information as is necessary for the 
making of accurate biennial appropriations for direct 
spending programs subject to the biennial appropria-
tions process, and recommendations on legislative 
changes to bring spending on such programs to a 
sustainable basis, if applicable.’’. 
(d) RULES COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the Committee on Rules of the House of Representa-
tives shall submit to the House conforming amendments 
to the Rules of the House of Representatives to effectuate 
this title, including the requirement that the authority to 
appropriate funds for direct spending programs subject to 
the biennial appropriations process is with the Committee 
on Appropriations. 
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TITLE III—ZERO-BASED 
BUDGETING 
SEC. 301. ZERO-BASED BUDGETING. 
Section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking subsection (a)(2) and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(2) consistent with subsection (i), a budget for 
each department and agency which contains the fol-
lowing information— 
‘‘(A) A description of each activity for 
which the department or agency receives an ap-
propriation in the current fiscal year or for 
which the department or agency requests an ap-
propriation for the budget year. 
‘‘(B) The legal basis for each activity. 
‘‘(C) For each activity, three alternative 
funding levels for the budget year, and a sum-
mary of the priorities that would be accom-
plished within each level, and the additional in-
crements of value that would be added by the 
higher funding levels. At least two of these 
funding levels shall be below the funding level 
for the current fiscal year. 
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‘‘(D) For each activity, one or more meas-
ures of its cost efficiency and effectiveness.’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(i) As soon as practicable, the Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget shall publish guidelines to 
carry out subsection (a)(2). The guidelines shall require 
that the baseline budget of each department or agency is 
assumed to be zero and each proposed expenditure shall 
be justified as if it were a new expenditure.’’. 
TITLE 
IV—PROCEDURE 
FOR 
CONSIDERATION OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS MEASURES CON-
SISTENT 
WITH 
A 
BUDGET 
RESOLUTION 
SEC. 401. ADOPTION OF RECONCILIATION PROCEDURES 
FOR APPROPRIATIONS BILLS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is further amended by adding after 
section 317, as added by section 201(a) of this Act, the 
following: 
‘‘SENATE PROCEDURES FOR APPROPRIATIONS BILLS 
‘‘SEC. 318. (a) An appropriation bill or joint resolu-
tion reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations 
in compliance with the allocations made under section 
302(b) shall be privileged in the United States Senate and 
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the motion to proceed shall be non-debatable. Except as 
provided in paragraph (2), the provisions of section 305 
shall also apply to the consideration in the Senate of ap-
propriations bills that comply with the allocations made 
under section 302(b). 
‘‘(b) Debate in the Senate on any appropriations 
measure reported under this subsection, and all amend-
ments thereto and debatable motions and appeals in con-
nection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 20 
hours, except in the case of an omnibus appropriations 
bill, where each subcommittees section shall be subject to 
20 hours of debate. 
‘‘EXTRANEOUS MATTER IN APPROPRIATIONS MEASURES 
‘‘SEC. 319. (a) Upon a point of order being made by 
any Senator against material extraneous to an appropria-
tions measure as defined by this section, and the point 
of order is sustained by the Chair, any part of said title 
or provision that contains material extraneous shall be 
deemed stricken from the bill and may not be offered as 
an amendment from the floor. 
‘‘(b) A provision of an appropriations measure con-
sidered pursuant to this section shall be considered extra-
neous if it authorizes or otherwise establishes one or more 
Federal agencies or programs, establishes new terms and 
conditions under which a program or agency operates, au-
thorizes the enactment of appropriations, or otherwise 
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specifies how appropriated funds are to be used. Notwith-
standing the previous sentence, limitation amendments or 
amendments to direct spending programs that are subject 
to the appropriations process which make such programs 
consistent with their 302(b) allocation shall not be consid-
ered extraneous. 
‘‘(c) Upon the reporting or discharge of an appropria-
tions measure, and upon the submission of a conference 
report on such appropriations measure, the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate shall submit for the record 
a list of material considered to be extraneous under this 
section. The inclusion or exclusion of a provision shall not 
constitute a determination of extraneousness by the Pre-
siding Officer of the Senate. 
‘‘(d) When the Senate is considering a conference re-
port on, or an amendment between the Houses in relation 
to, an appropriations measure considered pursuant to this 
section, upon— 
‘‘(1) a point of order being made by any Sen-
ator against extraneous material pursuant to this 
section; and 
‘‘(2) such point of order being sustained, 
such material contained in such conference report or 
amendment shall be deemed stricken, and the Senate shall 
proceed, without intervening action or motion, to consider 
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the question of whether the Senate shall recede from its 
amendment and concur with a further amendment, or con-
cur 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 for two hours. 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. 
‘‘(e) Notwithstanding any other law or rule of the 
Senate, it shall be in order for a Senator to raise a single 
point of order that several provisions of a bill, joint resolu-
tion, amendment, motion, or conference report violates 
this section. The Presiding Officer may sustain the point 
of order as to some or all of the provisions against which 
the Senator raised the point of order. If the Presiding Of-
ficer so sustains the point of order as to some of the provi-
sions (including provisions of an amendment, motion, or 
conference report) against which the Senator raised the 
point of order, then only those provisions (including provi-
sions of an amendment, motion, or conference report) 
against which the Presiding Officer sustains the point of 
order shall be deemed stricken pursuant to this section. 
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Before the Presiding Officer rules on such a point of 
order, any Senator may move to waive such a point of 
order as it applies to some or all of the provisions against 
which the point of order was raised by the affirmative vote 
of three-fifths of the Members, duly chosen and sworn. 
Such a motion to waive is amendable in accordance with 
the rules and precedents of the Senate. After the Presiding 
Officer rules on such a point of order, any Senator may 
appeal the ruling of the Presiding Officer on such a point 
of order as it applies to some or all of the provisions on 
which the Presiding Officer ruled.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) CONFORMING.—Section 904(c)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974 is amended by inserting ‘‘319,’’ after 
‘‘313,’’. 
(2) CLERICAL.—The table of contents set forth 
in section 1(b) of such Act is further amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 316 the fol-
lowing new items: 
‘‘Sec. 318. Senate procedures for appropriations bills. 
‘‘Sec. 319. Extraneous matter in appropriations measures.’’. 
TITLE V—NO BUDGET NO PAY 
SEC. 501. NO BUDGET NO PAY. 
(a) HOLDING SALARIES IN ESCROW.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—If by June 30, 2021, and 
June 30th of the first year of a Congress (beginning 
with the 117th Congress), both Houses of Congress 
have not jointly agreed to a concurrent resolution on 
the budget, during the period described in paragraph 
(2) the payroll administrator of each House of Con-
gress shall deposit in an escrow account all pay-
ments otherwise required to be made during such 
period for the compensation of Members of Congress 
and shall release such payments to such Members 
only upon the expiration of such period. 
(2) PERIOD DESCRIBED.—The period described 
in this paragraph is the period which begins on June 
30, 2021, or June 30th of the first year of a Con-
gress, and ends on the earlier of— 
(A) the day on which both Houses of Con-
gress agree to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget for that Congress pursuant to section 
301 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974; 
or 
(B) the last day of the applicable Con-
gress. 
(3) 
WITHHOLDING
AND
REMITTANCE
OF 
AMOUNTS FROM PAYMENTS HELD IN ESCROW.—The 
payroll administrator shall provide for the same 
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withholding and remittance with respect to a pay-
ment deposited in an escrow account under para-
graph (1) that would apply to the payment if the 
payment were not subject to paragraph (1). 
(4) RELEASE OF AMOUNTS AT END OF THE 
CONGRESS.—In order to ensure that this section is 
carried out in a manner that shall not vary the com-
pensation of Senators or Representatives in violation 
of the twenty-seventh article of amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States, the payroll ad-
ministrator of a House of Congress shall release for 
payments to Members of that House of Congress 
any amounts remaining in any escrow account under 
this section on the last day of the One Hundred Six-
teenth Congress or the Congress in which the 
amounts were withheld (as the case may be). 
(5) ROLE OF SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.— 
The Secretary of the Treasury shall provide the pay-
roll administrators of the Houses of Congress with 
such assistance as may be necessary to enable the 
payroll administrators to carry out this section. 
(b) TREATMENT OF DELEGATES AS MEMBERS.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘Member of Congress’’ includes a 
Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress. 
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(c) PAYROLL ADMINISTRATOR DEFINED.—In this 
section, the term ‘‘payroll administrator’’ of a House of 
Congress means— 
(1) in the case of the House of Representatives, 
the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of 
Representatives, or an employee of the Office of the 
Chief Administrative Officer who is designated by 
the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out this 
section; and 
(2) in the case of the Senate, the Secretary of 
the Senate, or an employee of the Office of the Sec-
retary of the Senate who is designated by the Sec-
retary to carry out this section. 
Æ 
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