‘‘(B) Whenever a Member or Senator, as the 
case may be, offers an amendment to an appropria-
tion bill dedicated to deficit reduction, the amount of 
new budget authority so dedicated shall be credited 
to the deficit reduction Balance. 
‘‘(2) If no such statement is made under para-
graph (1)(A), the amount of reduction in new budg-
et authority resulting from the amendment shall be 
credited to the deficit reduction Balance, as applica-
ble, if the amendment is agreed to. 
‘‘(3) Except as provided by paragraph (4), the 
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
House of Representatives or Senate shall, upon the 
engrossment of any appropriation bill by that House, 
credit to the applicable entry balances amounts of 
new budget authority and outlays equal to the net 
amounts of reductions in budget authority and in 
outlays resulting from amendments agreed to by 
that House to that bill plus the amounts of ear-
marks dedicated to deficit reduction (whether offered 
as an amendment to the bill or included in the chair-
man’s mark of the bill at the request of a Member 
of that House) agreed to by that House to that bill. 
‘‘(4) When computing the net amounts of re-
ductions in new budget authority and in outlays and 
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the amounts of earmarks dedicated to deficit reduc-
tion resulting from amendments agreed to by the 
House of Representatives or Senate to an appropria-
tion bill and the amounts of earmarks dedicated to 
deficit reduction that were included in the chair-
man’s mark of the bill, the chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget of that House shall only count 
those portions of such amendments agreed to that 
were so designated by the Members offering such 
amendments as amounts to be credited to the deficit 
reduction Balance plus the amounts of earmarks 
dedicated to deficit reduction (whether offered as an 
amendment to the bill or included in the chairman’s 
mark of the bill at the request of a Member of that 
House), or that fall within paragraph (2). 
‘‘(5) The chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives and of the 
Senate shall each maintain a running tally of the 
amendments adopted reflecting increases and de-
creases of budget authority in the bill as reported to 
its House. This tally shall be available to Members 
or Senators during consideration of any bill by that 
House. 
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‘‘(d) CALCULATION OF SAVINGS IN DEFICIT REDUC-
TION ACCOUNTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AND SENATE.— 
‘‘(1) For the purposes of enforcing section 302(a), 
upon the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the 
House of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, the 
amount of budget authority and outlays calculated pursu-
ant to subsection (c)(3) shall be counted against the 
302(a) allocation provided to the Committee on Appro-
priations as if the amount calculated pursuant to sub-
section (c)(3) was included in the bill just engrossed. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of enforcing section 302(b), upon 
the engrossment of any appropriation bill by the House 
of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, the 302(b) al-
location provided to the subcommittee for the bill just en-
grossed shall be deemed to have been reduced by the 
amount of budget authority and outlays calculated, pursu-
ant to subsection (c)(3). 
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘appropriation bill’ means any general or special appro-
priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup-
plemental, 
deficiency, 
or 
continuing 
appropriations 
through the end of fiscal year 2011 or any subsequent fis-
cal year, as the case may be.’’. 
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SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF MANDATORY DEFICIT REDUC-
TION ACCOUNT. 
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(as amended by section 2) is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new section: 
‘‘MANDATORY DEFICIT REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
‘‘SEC. 317. (a) ESTABLISHMENT OF ACCOUNT.—The 
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House 
of Representatives and of the Senate shall each maintain 
an account to be known as the ‘deficit reduction Manda-
tory Account’. The Account shall be divided into entries 
corresponding to the House of Representatives or Senate 
committees, as applicable, that received allocations under 
section 302(a) in the most recently adopted joint resolu-
tion on the budget, except that it shall not include the 
Committee on Appropriations of that House and each 
entry shall consist of the ‘First Year deficit reduction Ac-
count’ and the ‘Five Year deficit reduction Account’ or 
the period covered by the resolution on the budget for that 
fiscal year, as applicable. 
‘‘(b) COMPONENTS.—Each entry shall consist only of 
amounts credited to it under subsection (c). No entry of 
a negative amount shall be made. 
‘‘(c) CALCULATION OF ACCOUNT SAVINGS IN HOUSE 
AND SENATE.—For the purposes of enforcing section 
302(a), upon the engrossment of any bill, other than an 
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appropriation bill, by the House of Representatives or 
Senate, as applicable, the amount of budget authority and 
outlays calculated pursuant to subsection (d)(3) shall be 
counted against the 302(a) allocation provided to the ap-
plicable committee or committees of that House which re-
ported the bill as if the amount calculated pursuant to 
subsection (d)(3) was included in the bill just engrossed. 
‘‘(d) CREDITING OF AMOUNTS TO ACCOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) Whenever a Member or Senator, as the 
case may be, offers an amendment to a bill that re-
duces the amount of mandatory budget authority 
provided either under current law or proposed to be 
provided by the bill under consideration, that Mem-
ber or Senator may state the portion of such reduc-
tion achieved in the first year covered by the most 
recently adopted joint resolution on the budget and 
in addition the portion of such reduction achieved in 
the first five years covered by the most recently 
adopted joint resolution on the budget that shall be 
credited to the First Year deficit reduction Balance 
and the Five Year deficit reduction Balance, as ap-
plicable, if the amendment is agreed to. 
‘‘(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3), the 
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the 
House of Representatives or Senate, as applicable, 
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shall, upon the engrossment of any bill, other than 
an appropriation bill, by the House of Representa-
tives or Senate, as applicable, credit to the applica-
ble entry balances amounts of new budget authority 
and outlays equal to the net amounts of reductions 
in budget authority and in outlays resulting from 
amendments agreed to by that House to that bill. 
‘‘(3) When computing the net amounts of re-
ductions in budget authority and in outlays resulting 
from amendments agreed to by the House of Rep-
resentatives or Senate, as applicable, to a bill, the 
chairman of the Committee on the Budget of that 
House shall only count those portions of such 
amendments agreed to that were so designated by 
the Members or Senators offering such amendments 
as amounts to be credited to the First Year deficit 
reduction Balance and the Five-Year deficit reduc-
tion Balance, or that fall within paragraph (2). 
‘‘(4) The chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget of the House of Representatives and of the 
Senate shall each maintain a running tally of the 
amendments adopted reflecting increases and de-
creases of budget authority in the bill as reported to 
its House. This tally shall be available to Members 
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or Senators during consideration of any bill by that 
House. 
‘‘(e) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term 
‘appropriation bill’ means any general or special appro-
priation bill, and any bill or joint resolution making sup-
plemental, 
deficiency, 
or 
continuing 
appropriations 
through the end of fiscal year 2011 or any subsequent fis-
cal year, as the case may be.’’. 
SEC. 4. CONFORMING AMENDMENT. 
The table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the 
Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 is amended by inserting after the item relating to 
section 315 the following new items: 
‘‘Sec. 316. Discretionary deficit reduction account. 
‘‘Sec. 317. Mandatory deficit reduction account.’’. 
Æ 
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