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riod of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the period 
of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 305. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR RENEW-
ABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that provides tax 
incentives for or otherwise encourages the production of 
renewable energy or increased energy efficiency; encour-
ages investment in emerging energy or vehicle technologies 
or carbon capture and sequestration; provides for reduc-
tions in greenhouse gas emissions; or facilitates the train-
ing of workers for these industries (‘‘green collar jobs’’) 
by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the 
period of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 306. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MIDDLE- 
INCOME TAX RELIEF AND ECONOMIC EQUITY. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that provides for 
tax relief for middle-income families and taxpayers or en-
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hanced economic equity, such as extension of the child tax 
credit, extension of marriage penalty relief, extension of 
the 10 percent individual income tax bracket, elimination 
of estate taxes on all but a minute fraction of estates by 
reforming and substantially increasing the unified credit, 
extension of the research and experimentation tax credit, 
extension of the deduction for small business expensing, 
extension of the deduction for State and local sales taxes, 
and a tax credit for school construction bonds, by the 
amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for the pe-
riod of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the period 
of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 307. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR REFORM 
OF THE ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that provides for 
reform of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by reducing 
the tax burden of the alternative minimum tax on middle- 
income families by the amounts provided in such measure 
if such measure would not increase the deficit or decrease 
the surplus for the period of fiscal years 2008 through 
2013 or for the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
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SEC. 308. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HIGHER 
EDUCATION. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that makes col-
lege more affordable or accessible through reforms to the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 or other legislation by the 
amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for the pe-
riod of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the period 
of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 309. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR AFFORD-
ABLE HOUSING. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that provides for 
an affordable housing fund, offset by reforming the regu-
lation of certain government-sponsored enterprises, by the 
amounts provided in such measure if such measure would 
not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for the pe-
riod of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the period 
of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
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SEC. 310. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MEDI-
CARE IMPROVEMENTS. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that improves the 
Medicare program for beneficiaries and protects access to 
care, through measures such as increasing the reimburse-
ment rate for physicians while protecting beneficiaries 
from associated premium increases and making improve-
ments to the prescription drug program under part D, by 
the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the 
period of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 311. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR HEALTH 
CARE QUALITY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND EFFI-
CIENCY. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that— 
(1) provides incentives or other support for 
adoption of modern information technology, includ-
ing electronic prescribing, to improve quality and 
protect privacy in health care; 
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(2) establishes a new Federal or public-private 
initiative for research on the comparative effective-
ness of different medical interventions; or 
(3) provides parity between health insurance 
coverage of mental health benefits and benefits for 
medical and surgical services, including parity in 
public programs; 
by the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the 
period of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 312. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR MED-
ICAID AND OTHER PROGRAMS. 
(a) REGULATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIONS.— 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that prevents or 
delays the implementation or administration of regulations 
or other administrative actions that would affect the Med-
icaid, SCHIP, or other programs by the amounts provided 
in such measure if such measure would not increase the 
deficit or decrease the surplus for the period of fiscal years 
2008 through 2013 or for the period of fiscal years 2008 
through 2018. 
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(b) TRANSITIONAL
MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE
AND 
QUALIFYING INDIVIDUALS.—In the House, the chairman 
of the Committee on the Budget may revise the alloca-
tions, aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this reso-
lution for any bill, joint resolution, amendment, or con-
ference report that extends the transitional medical assist-
ance program or the qualifying individuals program, which 
are included in title XIX of the Social Security Act, by 
the amounts provided in such measure if such measure 
would not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for 
the period of fiscal years 2008 through 2013 or for the 
period of fiscal years 2008 through 2018. 
SEC. 313. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND FOR TRADE 
ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE AND UNEMPLOY-
MENT INSURANCE MODERNIZATION. 
In the House, the chairman of the Committee on the 
Budget may revise the allocations, aggregates, and other 
appropriate levels in this resolution for any bill, joint reso-
lution, amendment, or conference report that reauthorizes 
the trade adjustment assistance program to better meet 
the challenges of globalization or modernizes the unem-
ployment insurance system to improve access to needed 
benefits by the amounts provided in such measure if such 
measure would not increase the deficit or decrease the sur-
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