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‘‘(4) CONGRESSIONAL
BUDGET
OFFICE.—The 
term ‘CBO’ means the Director of the Congressional 
Budget Office. 
‘‘(5) 
COMPTROLLER
GENERAL.—The 
term 
‘Comptroller General’ means the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States. 
‘‘(6) DEFERRAL OF BUDGET AUTHORITY.—The 
term ‘deferral of budget authority’ includes— 
‘‘(A) withholding or delaying the obliga-
tions or expenditure of budget authority 
(whether by establishing reserves or otherwise) 
provided for projects or activities; or 
‘‘(B) any other type of Executive action or 
inaction which effectively precludes the obliga-
tion or expenditure of budget authority, includ-
ing authority to obligate by contract in advance 
of appropriations as specifically authorized by 
law. 
‘‘(7) FUNDING.—(A) Except as provided in sub-
paragraph (B), the term ‘funding’ means all or part 
of the dollar amount of budget authority or obliga-
tion limit— 
‘‘(i) specified in an appropriation measure, 
or the dollar amount of budget authority or ob-
ligation limit required to be allocated by a spe-
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cific proviso in an appropriation measure for 
which a specific dollar figure was not included; 
‘‘(ii) represented separately in any table, 
chart, or explanatory text included in the state-
ment of managers or the governing committee 
report accompanying such law; or 
‘‘(iii) represented by the product of the es-
timated procurement cost and the total quantity 
of items specified in an appropriation measure 
or included in the statement of managers or the 
governing committee report accompanying such 
law. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘funding’ does not include— 
‘‘(i) direct spending; 
‘‘(ii) budget authority in an appropriation 
measure which funds direct spending provided 
for in other law; 
‘‘(iii) any existing budget authority can-
celed in an appropriation measure; or 
‘‘(iv) any restriction or condition in an ap-
propriation measure or the accompanying state-
ment of managers or committee reports on the 
expenditure of budget authority for an account, 
program, project, or activity, or on activities in-
volving such expenditure. 
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‘‘(8) WITHHOLD.—The terms ‘withhold’ and 
‘withholding’ apply to any executive action or inac-
tion that precludes the obligation of funding at a 
time when it would otherwise have been available to 
an agency for obligation. The terms do not include 
administrative or preparatory actions undertaken 
prior to obligation in the normal course of imple-
menting budget laws. 
‘‘EXPIRATION 
‘‘SEC. 1016. On December 15, 2015, the amend-
ments made by the Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto 
and Rescissions Act of 2012 shall be replaced by the provi-
sions of part B of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
as in effect immediately before the date of enactment of 
the Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions 
Act of 2012.’’. 
SEC. 3. TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.—Section 
904 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 
621 note) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘1017’’ and 
inserting ‘‘1013’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘section 
1017’’ and inserting ‘‘section 1013’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—(1) The last sentence 
of section 1(a) of the Congressional Budget and Impound-
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ment Control Act of 1974 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘Sections 1011 through 1016 of part B of title X may 
be cited as the ‘Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and 
Rescissions Act of 2012’.’’. 
(2) Section 1017 of such Act (as redesignated) is 
amended by striking ‘‘section 1012 or 1013’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘section 1011 or 1019’’ and sec-
tion 1018 (as redesignated) is amended by striking ‘‘cal-
endar’’ and ‘‘of continuous session’’. 
(3) Section 1019(c) of such Act (as redesignated) is 
amended by striking ‘‘1012’’ and inserting ‘‘1011’’. 
(4) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents set 
forth in section 1(b) of the Congressional Budget and Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 is amended by striking 
the items relating to parts B and C (including all of the 
items relating to the sections therein) of title X and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘PART B—CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS AND 
DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY AND OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS 
‘‘Sec. 1011. Congressional consideration of proposed rescissions and deferrals 
of budget authority and obligation limitations. 
‘‘Sec. 1012. Grants of and limitations on presidential authority. 
‘‘Sec. 1013. Procedures for Expedited Consideration. 
‘‘Sec. 1014. Treatment of rescissions. 
‘‘Sec. 1015. Definitions. 
‘‘Sec. 1016. Expiration.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this Act shall apply to funding as defined in section 
1015(8) of the Congressional Budget Act and Impound-
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ment Control of 1974 in any Act enacted after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. APPROVAL MEASURES CONSIDERED. 
Section 314 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsections (b) through (e) 
as subsections (c) through (f) and by inserting after 
subsection (a) the following new subsection: 
‘‘(b) ADJUSTMENTS FOR RESCISSIONS.—(1) When-
ever an approval bill passes the House of Representatives, 
the Committee on the Budget shall immediately reduce the 
applicable allocations under section 302(a) by the total 
amount of reductions in budget authority and in outlays 
resulting from such approval bill. 
‘‘(2) As used in this subsection, the term ‘approval 
bill’ has the meaning given to such term in section 1015.’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (d) (as redesignated), by in-
serting ‘‘or (b)’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives February 8, 
2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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