IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 389 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to lower the threshold 
at which the gross budgetary effect of a piece of legislation requires 
the cost estimates provided for the legislation to incorporate macro-
economic variables resulting from the legislation, and to require the 
cost estimates provided for appropriation bills and joint resolutions to 
incorporate such variables. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2015 
Mr. DELANEY (for himself, Mr. PETERS, and Mr. HANNA) submitted the 
following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to 
lower the threshold at which the gross budgetary effect 
of a piece of legislation requires the cost estimates pro-
vided for the legislation to incorporate macroeconomic 
variables resulting from the legislation, and to require 
the cost estimates provided for appropriation bills and 
joint resolutions to incorporate such variables. 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Honest Dynamic 
Scoring Resolution’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF TYPES OF LEGISLATION SUBJECT 
TO DYNAMIC SCORING IN COST ESTIMATES. 
(a) LOWERING
THRESHOLD
OF
ECONOMIC
IM-
PACT.—Clause 8(d)(1)(A) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘0.25 
percent of the current projected gross domestic product 
for that fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘1 percent of the total 
amount of discretionary spending in the most recently 
ended fiscal year’’. 
(b) APPLYING REQUIREMENT
TO APPROPRIATION 
BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Clause 8 of rule XIII of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives is amended— 
(A) by redesignating paragraphs (c) and 
(d) as paragraphs (d) and (e); and 
(B) by inserting after paragraph (b) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(c)(1) An estimate provided by the Congressional 
Budget Office for the Committee on Appropriations for 
any appropriation bill or joint resolution under section 
202(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall, to 
the extent practicable, incorporate the budgetary effects 
of changes in economic output, employment, capital stock, 
and other macroeconomic variables resulting from such 
bill or joint resolution. The preceding sentence shall only 
apply to an estimate with respect to an appropriation bill 
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or joint resolution, or portion thereof, that funds a project, 
program, or activity authorized by major legislation (as 
described in paragraph (e)). 
‘‘(2) If the Office provides a range of estimates in 
addition to a central value under paragraph (1) with re-
spect to such a bill or joint resolution, the central value 
within such range shall be used for official scoring pur-
poses. 
‘‘(3) Notwithstanding the requirements of subpara-
graph (1), the Congressional Budget Office may use tradi-
tional scoring methods when providing such an estimate 
if the estimate will be the same under such method and 
under the method prescribed by such subparagraph.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Clause 
8(d)(1) of such rule, as redesignated by paragraph 
(1)(A), is amended by striking ‘‘paragraphs (a) and 
(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (a), (b), and (c)’’. 
(3) CLERICAL
AMENDMENT.—The heading of 
clause 8 of such rule is amended by striking 
‘‘major legislation’’ and inserting ‘‘major leg-
islation and appropriation bills and joint 
resolutions’’. 
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