I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1514
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed congres-
sionally approved amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 29, 1993
Mr. SLATTERY introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Ways and Means and Rules
A BILL
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consider-
ation of certain proposed congressionally approved
amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Expedited Consider-
ation of Proposed Revenue Amendments Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
POSED RESCISSIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title X of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2
U.S.C. 681 et seq.) is amended by redesignating sections
1013 through 1017 as sections 1014 through 1018, re-
spectively, and inserting after section 1012 the following
new section:
‘‘EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED
REVENUE AMENDMENTS
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986.—The President may
propose, at the time and in the manner provided in sub-
section (b), the repeal of any provisions of the Internal
Revenue Code.
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL
OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—Not
later than 3 days after the date of enactment of a law
amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the Presi-
dent may transmit to Congress a special message propos-
ing to repeal any amendments contained in that law and
include with that special message a draft bill or joint reso-
lution that, if enacted, would only repeal those amend-
ments.
‘‘(c) PROCEDURES
FOR
EXPEDITED
CONSIDER-
ATION.—
‘‘(1)(A) Before the close of the second day of
continuous session of the applicable House after the
date of receipt of a special message transmitted to
Congress under subsection (b), the majority leader
or minority leader of the House of Congress in
which the law involved originated shall introduce (by
request) the draft bill or joint resolution accompany-
ing that special message. If the bill or joint resolu-
tion is not introduced as provided in the preceding
sentence, then, on the third day of continuous ses-
sion of that House after the date of receipt of that
special message, any Member of that House may in-
troduce the bill or joint resolution.
‘‘(B) The bill or joint resolution shall be re-
ferred to the Committee on Ways and Means or the
Committee on Finance, as the case may be. The
committee shall report the bill or joint resolution
without substantive revision and with or without rec-
ommendation. The bill or joint resolution shall be re-
ported not later than the seventh day of continuous
session of that House after the date of receipt of
that special message. If the committee fails to report
the bill or joint resolution within that period, that
committee shall be automatically discharged from
consideration of the bill or joint resolution, and the