H. J. Res. 45 
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and ten 
Joint Resolution 
Increasing the statutory limit on the public debt. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection 
(b) of section 3101 of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection 
and inserting in lieu thereof $14,294,000,000,000. 
TITLE I—STATUTORY PAY-AS-YOU-GO 
ACT OF 2010 
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act 
of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this title is to reestablish a statutory procedure 
to enforce a rule of budget neutrality on new revenue and direct 
spending legislation. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATIONS. 
As used in this title— 
(1) The term ‘‘BBEDCA’’ means the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
(2) The definitions set forth in section 3 of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and in 
section 250 of BBEDCA shall apply to this title, except to 
the extent that they are specifically modified as follows: 
(A) The term ‘‘outyear’’ means a fiscal year one or 
more years after the budget year. 
(B) In section 250(c)(8)(C), the reference to the food 
stamp program shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. 
(3) The term ‘‘AMT’’ means the Alternative Minimum Tax 
for individuals under sections 55–59 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986, the term ‘‘EGTRRA’’ means the Economic Growth 
and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (Public Law 107– 
16), and the term ‘‘JGTRRA’’ means the Jobs and Growth 
Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003 (Public Law 108– 
27). 
(4)(A) The term ‘‘budgetary effects’’ means the amount by 
which PAYGO legislation changes outlays flowing from direct 
spending or revenues relative to the baseline and shall be
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determined on the basis of estimates prepared under section 
4. Budgetary effects that increase outlays flowing from direct 
spending or decrease revenues are termed ‘‘costs’’ and budgetary 
effects that increase revenues or decrease outlays flowing from 
direct spending are termed ‘‘savings’’. Budgetary effects shall 
not include any costs associated with debt service. 
(B) For purposes of these definitions, off-budget effects 
shall not be counted as budgetary effects. 
(C) Solely for purposes of recording entries on a PAYGO 
scorecard, provisions in appropriation Acts are also considered 
to be budgetary effects for purposes of this title if such provi-
sions make outyear modifications to substantive law, except 
that provisions for which the outlay effects net to zero over 
a period consisting of the current year, the budget year, and 
the 4 subsequent years shall not be considered budgetary 
effects. For purposes of this paragraph, the term, ‘‘modifications 
to substantive law’’ refers to changes to or restrictions on 
entitlement law or other mandatory spending contained in 
appropriations Acts, notwithstanding section 250(c)(8) of 
BBEDCA. Provisions in appropriations Acts that are neither 
outyear modifications to substantive law nor changes in reve-
nues have no budgetary effects for purposes of this title. 
(5) The term ‘‘debit’’ refers to the net total amount, when 
positive, by which costs recorded on the PAYGO scorecards 
for a fiscal year exceed savings recorded on those scorecards 
for that year. 
(6) The term ‘‘entitlement law’’ refers to a section of law 
which provides entitlement authority. 
(7) The term ‘‘PAYGO legislation’’ or a ‘‘PAYGO Act’’ refers 
to a bill or joint resolution that affects direct spending or 
revenue relative to the baseline. The budgetary effects of 
changes in revenues and outyear modifications to substantive 
law included in appropriation Acts as defined in paragraph 
(4) shall be treated as if they were contained in PAYGO legisla-
tion or a PAYGO Act. 
(8) The term ‘‘timing shift’’ refers to a delay of the date 
on which outlays flowing from direct spending would otherwise 
occur from the ninth outyear to the tenth outyear or an accel-
eration of the date on which revenues would otherwise occur 
from the tenth outyear to the ninth outyear. 
SEC. 4. PAYGO ESTIMATES AND PAYGO SCORECARDS. 
(a) PAYGO ESTIMATES.— 
(1) REQUIRED DESIGNATION IN PAYGO ACTS.— 
(A) HOUSE
OF
REPRESENTATIVES.—To establish the 
budgetary effects of a PAYGO Act consistent with the 
determination made by the Chairman of the House Budget 
Committee, a PAYGO Act originated in or amended by 
the House of Representatives may include the following 
statement: ‘‘The budgetary effects of this Act, for the pur-
pose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go-Act 
of 2010, shall be determined by reference to the latest 
statement titled ‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’ 
for this Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional 
Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, 
provided that such statement has been submitted prior 
to the vote on passage.’’.
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(B) SENATE.—To establish the budgetary effects of a 
PAYGO Act consistent with the determination made by 
the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, a PAYGO 
Act originated in or amended by the Senate shall include 
the following statement: ‘‘The budgetary effects of this Act, 
for the purpose of complying with the Statutory Pay-As- 
You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined by reference to 
the latest statement titled ‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO 
Legislation’ for this Act, submitted for printing in the 
Congressional Record by the Chairman of the Senate 
Budget Committee, provided that such statement has been 
submitted prior to the vote on passage.’’. 
(C) CONFERENCE REPORTS AND AMENDMENTS BETWEEN 
THE
HOUSES.—To establish the budgetary effects of the 
conference report on a PAYGO Act, or an amendment to 
an amendment between Houses on a PAYGO Act, which 
if estimated shall be estimated jointly by the Chairmen 
of the House and Senate Budget Committees, the con-
ference report or amendment between the Houses shall 
include the following statement: ‘‘The budgetary effects 
of this Act, for the purpose of complying with the Statutory 
Pay-As-You-Go-Act of 2010, shall be determined by ref-
erence to the latest statement titled ‘Budgetary Effects 
of PAYGO Legislation’ for this Act, jointly submitted for 
printing in the Congressional Record by the Chairmen 
of the House and Senate Budget Committees, provided 
that such statement has been submitted prior to the vote 
on passage in the House acting first on this conference 
report or amendment between the Houses.’’. 
(2) DETERMINATION
OF
BUDGETARY
EFFECTS
OF
PAYGO 
ACTS.— 
(A) ORIGINAL LEGISLATION.— 
(i) STATEMENT AND ESTIMATE.—Prior to a vote on 
passage of a PAYGO Act originated or amended by 
one House, the Chairman of the Budget Committee 
of that House may submit for printing in the Congres-
sional Record a statement titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects 
of PAYGO Legislation’’ which shall include an estimate 
of the budgetary effects of that Act, if available prior 
to passage of the Act by that House and shall submit, 
if applicable, an identification of any current policy 
adjustments made pursuant to section 7 of this Act. 
The timely submission of such a statement, in conjunc-
tion with the appropriate designation made pursuant 
to paragraph (1)(A) or (1)(B), as applicable, shall estab-
lish the budgetary effects of the PAYGO Act for the 
purposes of this Act. 
(ii) EFFECT.—The latest statement submitted by 
the Chairman of the Budget Committee of that House 
prior to passage shall supersede any prior statements 
submitted in the Congressional Record and shall be 
valid only if the PAYGO Act is not further amended 
by either House. 
(iii) FAILURE TO SUBMIT ESTIMATE.—If— 
(I) the estimate required by clause (i) has not 
been submitted prior to passage by that House;