(A) striking ‘‘for the first fiscal year of the 
resolution,’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 
in the biennium,’’; 
(B) striking ‘‘for that period of fiscal 
years’’ and inserting ‘‘for all fiscal years cov-
ered by the resolution’’; and 
(C) striking ‘‘for the fiscal year of that 
resolution’’ and inserting ‘‘for each fiscal year 
in the biennium’’; 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by 
striking ‘‘subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection 
(a)(1)’’; 
(3) in subsection (f)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘for a biennium’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘the first fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘either fiscal year of the biennium’’; 
and 
(C) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘as 
reported’’; 
(4) in subsection (f)(2)(A), by— 
(A) striking ‘‘first fiscal year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘each fiscal year of the biennium’’; and 
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(B) striking ‘‘the total of fiscal years’’ and 
inserting ‘‘the total of all fiscal years covered by 
the resolution’’; and 
(5) by striking subsection (g). 
SEC. 106. MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding after section 
315 the following new section: 
‘‘MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 316. (a) It shall not be in order in the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any measure 
that contains an authorization of appropriations for any 
purpose unless the measure includes such an authorization 
of appropriations for that purpose for not less than each 
fiscal year in one or more bienniums. 
‘‘(b)(1) For purposes of this section, an authorization 
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 cer-
tain, as a limit, or as such sums as may be necessary) 
for any purpose for a fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to 
an authorization of appropriations for a single fiscal year 
for any program, project, or activity if the measure con-
taining that authorization includes a provision expressly 
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stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no authoriza-
tion of appropriation will be required for [Insert name of 
applicable program, project, or activity] for any subse-
quent fiscal year.’. 
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘measure’ 
means a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or con-
ference report.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by in-
serting after the item relating to section 315 the following 
new item: 
‘‘Sec. 316. Multiyear authorizations of appropriations.’’. 
SEC. 107. ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS TO THE CONGRES-
SIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974 TO EFFEC-
TUATE BIENNIAL BUDGETING. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the Congressional 
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as amend-
ed, is further amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraphs: 
‘‘(14) The term ‘Medicare’ means programs 
within budget function 570. 
‘‘(15) The term ‘Medicaid and other health-re-
lated spending’ means programs within budget func-
tion 550. 
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‘‘(16) The term ‘other direct spending’ means 
programs other than those within budget functions 
550 and 570, excluding Social Security and net in-
terest.’’. 
(b) COMPLETION OF HOUSE COMMITTEE ACTION ON 
APPROPRIATION BILLS.—Section 307 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 638) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘each year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
odd-numbered year’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘bien-
nial’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘bi-
ennium’’; and 
(4) by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
odd-numbered year’’. 
(c) COMPLETION OF HOUSE ACTION ON REGULAR 
APPROPRIATION BILLS.—Section 309 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 640) is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘HOUSE APPROVAL OF REGULATION APPROPRIATION 
BILLS 
‘‘SEC. 309. It shall not be in order in the House of 
Representatives to consider any resolution providing for 
an adjournment period of more than three calendar days 
during the months of November and December of any odd- 
numbered calendar year until the House of Representa-
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tives has approved annual appropriation bills providing 
new budget authority under the jurisdiction of all the sub-
committees of the Committee on Appropriations for the 
fiscal year beginning on January 1 of the following year.’’. 
(d) RECONCILIATION PROCESS.—Section 310 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 641) is 
amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘any fiscal year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘any biennium’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘such fiscal 
year’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘any fiscal 
year covered by such resolution’’; and 
(3) by striking subsection (f) and redesignating 
subsection (g) as subsection (f). 
(e) SECTION 311 POINT OF ORDER.— 
(1) IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— 
Section 311(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 642(a)) is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘for a biennium’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘the first fiscal year’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘either fiscal 
year of the biennium’’; and 
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(C) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’. 
(2) IN THE SENATE.—Section 311(a)(2) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘for 
the first fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘for either 
fiscal year of the biennium’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year’’ 
the first place it appears and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘that first fiscal year 
and the ensuing fiscal years’’ and inserting 
‘‘all fiscal years’’. 
(3) 
SOCIAL
SECURITY
LEVELS.—Section 
311(a)(3) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by— 
(A) striking ‘‘for the first fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; 
and 
(B) striking ‘‘that fiscal year and the ensu-
ing fiscal years’’ and inserting ‘‘all fiscal 
years’’. 
(4) EXCEPTION.—Section 311(c) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by insert-
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ing ‘‘with respect to new budget authority or out-
lays’’ after ‘‘shall not apply’’. 
(f) MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT POINT OF ORDER.— 
Section 312(c) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(2 U.S.C. 643) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘for a fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘for a biennium’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘first fiscal 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘either fiscal year in the bien-
nium’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘that fiscal 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘either fiscal year in the bien-
nium’’; and 
(4) in the matter following paragraph (2), by 
striking ‘‘that fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘the appli-
cable fiscal year’’. 
Subtitle 
B—Conforming 
Amend-
ments to the Rules of the House 
of Representatives and the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 
SEC. 111. RULES COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Committee on Rules of the House of Rep-
resentatives shall submit to the House conforming amend-
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ments to the Rules of the House of Representatives to ef-
fectuate this title. 
SEC. 112. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO THE CONGRES-
SIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974. 
(a) SECTION 202(e).—Section 202(e)(1)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking 
‘‘(b)(2)(A) and for excise taxes assumed to be extended 
under section 257(b)(2)(C)’’. 
(b) SECTION 302(f)(1).—Section 302(f)(1) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by inserting 
‘‘or outlays’’ after ‘‘new budget authority’’. 
(c) SECTION 308(a).—Section 308(a)(3)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is repealed. 
(d) SECTION 308(d).—Section 308(d) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by striking 
‘‘252(d)(5)’’ and inserting ‘‘252(c)’’. 
Subtitle 
C—Conforming 
Amend-
ments to Titles 1, 5, 31, and 39, 
United States Code 
SEC. 121. TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS; TITLE AND STYLE 
OF APPROPRIATION ACTS. 
Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
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‘‘§ 105. Title and style of appropriation 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].’. 
‘‘(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(13) of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 622(13)).’’. 
SEC. 122. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED STATES 
CODE. 
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 1101 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) ‘biennium’ has the meaning given to such 
term in paragraph (13) of section 3 of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(12)).’’. 
(b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO THE 
CONGRESS.— 
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(1) SCHEDULE.—The matter preceding para-
graph (1) in section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) On or before the first Monday in April of each 
odd-numbered year, beginning with the One Hundred Six-
teenth Congress, the President shall transmit to the Con-
gress the budget for the biennium beginning on January 
1 of the following calendar year. The budget transmitted 
under this subsection shall include a budget message and 
summary and supporting information. The President shall 
include in each budget submission the following:’’. 
(2) EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(5) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted 
and the 4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium for which the 
budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 
(3) RECEIPTS.—Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the fis-
cal year for which the budget is submitted and the 
4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 
submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 
(4) 
BALANCE
STATEMENTS.—Section 
1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31, United States Code, is 
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amended by striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’. 
(5) GOVERNMENT
FUNCTIONS
AND
ACTIVI-
TIES.—Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended in subparagraph (A), by 
striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal 
year in the biennium’’. 
(6) ALLOWANCES.—Section 1105(a)(13) of title 
31, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the 
fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the bi-
ennium’’. 
(7) ALLOWANCES
FOR
UNANTICIPATED
AND 
UNCONTROLLABLE
EXPENDITURES.—Section 
1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is 
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— 
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States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(40) Totals of new budget authority and out-
lays. 
‘‘(41) Total Federal revenues and the amount, 
if any, by which the aggregate level of Federal reve-
nues should be increased or decreased by bills and 
resolutions to be reported by the appropriate com-
mittees. 
‘‘(42) The surplus or deficit in the budget. 
‘‘(43) Subtotals of new budget authority and 
outlays for nondefense discretionary spending, de-
fense discretionary spending, direct spending (ex-
cluding interest), contingencies, and net interest. 
‘‘(44) The public debt.’’. 
(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) ADDITIONAL OUTYEAR DATA.—Section 1105(d) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(d)’’ and by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(2) Each budget submission shall include a budget 
message and summary and supporting information and, 
as a separately delineated statement, the levels required 
in paragraphs (40) through (44) of subsection (a) for at 
least each of the 4 ensuing fiscal years after the biennium 
covered by the budget submission under such subsection.’’. 
(f) 
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’’. 
(g) 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— 
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(i) striking ‘‘Before July 16 of each 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘Before April 7 of 
each even-numbered year and before Sep-
tember 15 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’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘4 fiscal 
years following the fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘at least 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) striking ‘‘Before July 16 of each year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Before April 7 of each even- 
numbered year and before September 15 of 
each year’’ after . 
(h) CURRENT PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, AND ACTIVI-
TIES ESTIMATES.— 
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(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 
by striking ‘‘before March 1 of each year’’ and in-
serting ‘‘within 6 weeks of the President’s budget 
submission for each odd-numbered year’’. 
(i) YEAR-AHEAD REQUESTS FOR AUTHORIZING LEG-
ISLATION.—Section 1110 of title 31, United States Code, 
is hereby repealed. 
(j) 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’’; 
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(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; 
(D) in paragraph (6) by striking the period 
and inserting a semicolon; and inserting ‘‘and’’ 
after the inserted semicolon; and 
(E) by adding after paragraph (6) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the biennium be-
ginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial 
budget cycle.’’; 
(2) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and 
inserting ‘‘biennial’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (6) of subsection (f) by strik-
ing ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘biennial’’. 
(k) PILOT PROJECTS
FOR PERFORMANCE BUDG-
ETING.—Section 1119 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1) of subsection (d), by strik-
ing ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘biennial’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘annual’’ and 
inserting ‘‘biennial’’. 
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(l) MANAGERIAL
ACCOUNTABILITY
AND
FLEXI-
BILITY.—Section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, re-
lating to managerial accountability, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘Be-
ginning with fiscal year 1999, the’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Beginning with fiscal year 2020, the bien-
nial’’ and by striking ‘‘annual’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘section 1105(a)(29)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘section 1105(a)(28)’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘one 
or’’ before ‘‘years’’; 
(B) in the second sentence by striking ‘‘a 
subsequent year’’ and inserting ‘‘for a subse-
quent 2-year period’’; and 
(C) in the third sentence by striking 
‘‘three’’ and inserting ‘‘four’’. 
SEC. 123. GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC AND PERFORMANCE 
PLANS ON A BIENNIAL BASIS. 
(a) STRATEGIC PLANS.— 
(1) TITLE 5.—Section 306 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘February of 
any year following’’ and inserting ‘‘April of’’. 
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(2) TITLE 39.—Section 2802 of title 39, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Sep-
tember 30, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 
2020’’; 
(B) in subsection (b), by— 
(i) striking ‘‘five years forward’’ and 
inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 
(ii) striking ‘‘at least every three 
years’’ and inserting ‘‘at least every 4 
years’’; and 
(C) in subsection (c), by inserting ‘‘, in-
cluding a strategic plan submitted by Sep-
tember 30, 2020, meeting the requirements of 
subsection (a)’’ before the period. 
(b) 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; 
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(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.’’. 
Subtitle D—Change of Fiscal Year 
SEC. 131. CHANGE OF FISCAL YEAR. 
(a) CHANGE OF CALENDAR PERIOD.—Section 1102 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘October 1’’ and inserting ‘‘Jan-
uary 1’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘September 30 of the following 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31 of that year’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall be effective on January 1, 2020. 
(c) TRANSITION.—During the period between Octo-
ber 1, 2019, and December 31, 2019, Congress shall pro-
vide discretionary appropriations at a rate comparable to 
the rate of funding provided in fiscal year 2019. 
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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 2020 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, 2019, 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, 2019, or June 30th of the first year of a Con-
gress, and ends on the earlier of— 
(A) the day on which both House 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 ‘‘payroll administrator’’ of a House of Con-
gress 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. 
TITLE VI—REPEAL OF 
SEQUESTRATION 
SEC. 601. REPEAL OF SEQUESTRATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.) 
is amended— 
(1) in section 251— 
(A) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in subparagraphs (B) and (C)— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the end 
of subclause (VII); 
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