amended by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 
submitted’’. 
(8) TAX EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(16) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 
in the biennium’’. 
(9) ESTIMATES FOR FUTURE YEARS.—Section 
1105(a)(17) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year following 
the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 
in the biennium following the biennium’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘that following fiscal year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each such fiscal year’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘fiscal year before the fis-
cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium before the bi-
ennium’’. 
(10) 
PRIOR
YEAR
OUTLAYS.—Section 
1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com-
pleted fiscal years,’’; 
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(B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 
(11) 
PRIOR
YEAR
RECEIPTS.—Section 
1105(a)(19) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com-
pleted fiscal years’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 
(c) ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
OF LEGISLATIVE 
AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES.—Section 1105(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘each year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each even numbered year’’. 
(d) RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEET ESTIMATED DE-
FICIENCIES.—Section 1105(c) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the first 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 
the biennium for’’; 
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(2) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the second 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of 
the biennium, as the case may be,’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
each year of the biennium’’. 
(e) 
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANALYSIS.—Section 
1105(e)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘ensuing fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium 
to which such budget relates’’. 
(f) 
SUPPLEMENTAL
BUDGET
ESTIMATES
AND 
CHANGES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1106(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by— 
(i) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 
of each even numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before 
July 16 of each year’’; and 
(ii) striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘biennium’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘that fis-
cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 
such biennium’’; 
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(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘4 fiscal 
years following the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘4 
fiscal years following the biennium’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium’’. 
(2) CHANGES.—Section 1106(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by— 
(A) striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; and 
(B) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 of 
each even numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before July 
16 of each year’’. 
(g) CURRENT PROGRAMS
AND ACTIVITIES ESTI-
MATES.— 
(1) THE PRESIDENT.—Section 1109(a) of title 
31, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘On or before the first 
Monday after January 3 of each year (on or be-
fore February 5 in 1986)’’ and inserting ‘‘At 
the same time the budget required by section 
1105 is submitted for a biennium’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the following fiscal year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of such period’’. 
(2) JOINT
ECONOMIC
COMMITTEE.—Section 
1109(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
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by striking ‘‘March 1 of each year’’ and inserting 
‘‘within 6 weeks of the President’s budget submis-
sion for each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, 
as provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974)’’. 
(h) YEAR-AHEAD
REQUESTS
FOR
AUTHORIZING 
LEGISLATION.—Section 1110 of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘May 16’’ and inserting ‘‘March 
31’’; and 
(2) striking ‘‘year before the year in which the 
fiscal year begins’’ and inserting ‘‘calendar year pre-
ceding the calendar year in which the biennium be-
gins’’. 
SEC. 6. TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS; TITLE AND STYLE OF 
APPROPRIATIONS ACTS. 
Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 105. Title and style of appropriations Acts 
‘‘(a) The style and title of all Acts making appropria-
tions for the support of the Government shall be as fol-
lows: ‘An Act making appropriations (here insert the ob-
ject) for each fiscal year in the biennium of fiscal years 
(here insert the fiscal years of the biennium).’. 
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‘‘(b) All Acts making regular appropriations for the 
support of the Government shall be enacted for a biennium 
and shall specify the amount of appropriations provided 
for each fiscal year in such period. 
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘biennium’ 
has the same meaning as in section 3(12) of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 622(12)).’’. 
SEC. 7. MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section: 
‘‘MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 316. (a) POINT OF ORDER.—(1)(A) It shall 
not be in order in the House of Representatives or the 
Senate to consider any measure that contains a specific 
authorization of appropriations for any purpose unless the 
measure includes such a specific authorization of appro-
priations for that purpose for not less than each fiscal year 
in one or more bienniums. 
‘‘(B) For purposes of this paragraph, a specific au-
thorization of appropriations is an authorization for the 
enactment of an amount of appropriations or amounts not 
to exceed an amount of appropriations (whether stated as 
a sum certain, as a limit, or as such sums as may be nec-
essary) for any purpose for a fiscal year. 
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(B) by striking ‘‘five years forward’’ and 
inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma 
after ‘‘section’’ the second place it appears and add-
ing ‘‘including a strategic plan submitted by Sep-
tember 30, 2018, meeting the requirements of sub-
section (a)’’. 
(b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO CON-
GRESS.—Paragraph (28) of section 1105(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘beginning 
with fiscal year 1999, a’’ and inserting ‘‘beginning with 
fiscal year 2020, a biennial’’. 
(c) PERFORMANCE PLANS.—Section 1115 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter before paragraph (1) by 
striking ‘‘an annual’’ and inserting ‘‘a bien-
nial’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1) by inserting after 
‘‘program activity’’ the following: ‘‘for both 
years 1 and 2 of the biennial plan’’; 
(C) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
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(g) PERFORMANCE PLANS.—Section 2803(a) of title 
39, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in the matter before paragraph (1), by 
striking ‘‘an annual’’ and inserting ‘‘a biennial’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting after ‘‘pro-
gram activity’’ the following: ‘‘for both years 1 and 
2 of the biennial plan’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ after 
the semicolon; 
(4) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(5) by adding after paragraph (6) the following: 
‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the biennium be-
ginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial 
budget cycle.’’. 
(h) COMMITTEE VIEWS OF PLANS AND REPORTS.— 
Section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act (2 U.S.C. 
632(d)) is amended by adding at the end ‘‘Each committee 
of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall review 
the strategic plans, performance plans, and performance 
reports, required under section 306 of title 5, United 
States Code, and sections 1115 and 1116 of title 31, 
United States Code, of all agencies under the jurisdiction 
of the committee. Each committee may provide its views 
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on such plans or reports to the Committee on the Budget 
of the applicable House.’’. 
(i) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on September 30, 2018. 
(2) AGENCY ACTIONS.—Effective on and after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each agency shall 
take such actions as necessary to prepare and sub-
mit any plan or report in accordance with the 
amendments made by it. 
SEC. 9. BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION BILLS. 
(a) IN
THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES.—(1) 
Clause 2(a) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subparagraph: 
‘‘(3)(A) Except as provided by subdivision (B), an ap-
propriation may not be reported in a general appropriation 
bill (other than a supplemental appropriation bill), and 
may not be in order as an amendment thereto, unless it 
provides new budget authority or establishes a level of ob-
ligations under contract authority for each fiscal year of 
a biennium. 
‘‘(B) Subdivision (A) does not apply with respect to 
an appropriation for a single fiscal year for any program, 
project, or activity if the bill or amendment thereto con-
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taining that appropriation includes a provision expressly 
stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no additional 
funding beyond one fiscal year will be required and the 
[Insert name of applicable program, project, or activity] 
will be completed or terminated after the amount provided 
has been expended.’. 
‘‘(C) For purposes of paragraph (b), the statement 
set forth in subdivision (B) with respect to an appropria-
tion for a single fiscal year for any program, project, or 
activity may be included in a general appropriation bill 
or amendment thereto.’’. 
(2) Clause 5(b)(1) of rule XXII of the House of Rep-
resentatives is amended by striking ‘‘or (c)’’ and inserting 
‘‘or (3) or 2(c)’’. 
(b) IN THE SENATE.—(1) Title III of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 631 et seq.) (as 
amended by section 7(a)) is further amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘CONSIDERATION OF BIENNIAL APPROPRIATION BILLS 
‘‘SEC. 317. It shall not be in order in the Senate in 
any odd-numbered year to consider any regular appropria-
tion bill providing new budget authority or a limitation 
on obligations under the jurisdiction of the Committee on 
Appropriations for only the first fiscal year of a biennium, 
unless the program, project, or activity for which the new 
budget authority or obligation limitation is provided will 
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require no additional authority beyond one year and will 
be completed or terminated after the amount provided has 
been expended.’’. 
(2) The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of 
the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act 
of 1974 is amended by adding after the item relating to 
section 316 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 317. Consideration of biennial appropriation bills.’’. 
SEC. 10. ASSISTANCE BY FEDERAL AGENCIES TO STANDING 
COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE AND THE 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
(a) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY APPROPRIA-
TIONS REQUESTS.—To assist each standing committee of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate in carrying 
out its responsibilities, the head of each Federal agency 
which administers the laws or parts of laws under the ju-
risdiction of such committee shall provide to such com-
mittee such studies, information, analyses, reports, and 
assistance as may be requested by the chairman and rank-
ing minority member of the committee. 
(b) INFORMATION REGARDING AGENCY PROGRAM 
ADMINISTRATION.—To assist each standing committee of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate in carrying 
out its responsibilities, the head of any agency shall fur-
nish to such committee documentation, containing infor-
mation received, compiled, or maintained by the agency 
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as part of the operation or administration of a program, 
or specifically compiled pursuant to a request in support 
of a review of a program, as may be requested by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of such com-
mittee. 
(c) SUMMARIES BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL.—With-
in thirty days after the receipt of a request from a chair-
man and ranking minority member of a standing com-
mittee having jurisdiction over a program being reviewed 
and studied by such committee under this section, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall furnish to 
such committee summaries of any audits or reviews of 
such program which the Comptroller General has com-
pleted during the preceding six years. 
(d) CONGRESSIONAL ASSISTANCE.—Consistent with 
their duties and functions under law, the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States, the Director of the Congres-
sional Budget Office, and the Director of the Congres-
sional Research Service shall continue to furnish (con-
sistent with established protocols) to each standing com-
mittee of the House of Representatives or the Senate such 
information, studies, analyses, and reports as the chair-
man and ranking minority member may request to assist 
the committee in conducting reviews and studies of pro-
grams under this section. 
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