(i) Clause 5(a)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year after September 15 in the preceding fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘biennium after September 15 of the calendar 
year in which such biennium begins’’. 
SEC. 125. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE 31, UNITED STATES 
CODE. 
(a) DEFINITION.—Section 1101 of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(3) ‘biennium’ has the meaning given to such 
term in paragraph (13) of section 3 of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 
1974 (2 U.S.C. 622(13)).’’. 
(b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO THE 
CONGRESS.— 
(1) SCHEDULE.—The matter preceding para-
graph (1) in section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) On or before the first Monday in February of 
each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, as provided by 
section 300(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974), 
beginning with the One Hundred Tenth Congress or a 
subsequent Congress (as applicable), the President shall 
submit to the Congress the budget for the biennium begin-
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ning on October 1 of such calendar year. The budget 
transmitted under this subsection shall include a budget 
message and summary and supporting information. The 
President shall include in each budget the following:’’. 
(2) EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(5) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended by striking 
‘‘the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted 
and the 4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium for which the 
budget is submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 
(3) RECEIPTS.—Section 1105(a)(6) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the fis-
cal year for which the budget is submitted and the 
4 fiscal years after that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 
submitted and in the succeeding 4 years’’. 
(4) 
BALANCE
STATEMENTS.—Section 
1105(a)(9)(C) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’. 
(5) GOVERNMENT
FUNCTIONS
AND
ACTIVI-
TIES.—Section 1105(a)(12) of title 31, United 
States Code, is amended in subparagraph (A), by 
striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal 
year in the biennium’’. 
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(6) ALLOWANCES.—Section 1105(a)(13) of title 
31, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘the 
fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in the bi-
ennium’’. 
(7) ALLOWANCES
FOR
UNANTICIPATED
AND 
UNCONTROLLABLE
EXPENDITURES.—Section 
1105(a)(14) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘each 
fiscal year in the biennium for which the budget is 
submitted’’. 
(8) TAX EXPENDITURES.—Section 1105(a)(16) 
of title 31, United States Code, is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 
in the biennium’’. 
(9) ESTIMATES FOR FUTURE YEARS.—Section 
1105(a)(17) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year following 
the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year 
in the biennium following the biennium’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘that following fiscal year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each such fiscal year’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘fiscal year before the fis-
cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium before the bi-
ennium’’. 
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(10) 
PRIOR
YEAR
OUTLAYS.—Section 
1105(a)(18) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year,’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com-
pleted fiscal years,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 
(11) 
PRIOR
YEAR
RECEIPTS.—Section 
1105(a)(19) of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the prior fiscal year’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each of the 2 most recently com-
pleted fiscal years’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘for that year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘with respect to those fiscal years’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘in that year’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘in those fiscal years’’. 
(c) ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
OF LEGISLATIVE 
AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES.—Section 1105(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘each year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each even-numbered year’’. 
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(d) RECOMMENDATIONS TO MEET ESTIMATED DE-
FICIENCIES.—Section 1105(c) of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the first 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 
the biennium for’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘the fiscal year for’’ the second 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of 
the biennium, as the case may be,’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘that year’’ and inserting ‘‘for 
each year of the biennium’’. 
(e) 
CAPITAL
INVESTMENT
ANALYSIS.—Section 
1105(e)(1) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘ensuing fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium 
to which such budget relates’’. 
(f) 
SUPPLEMENTAL
BUDGET
ESTIMATES
AND 
CHANGES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 1106(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by— 
(i) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 
of each even-numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before 
July 16 of each year’’; and 
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(ii) striking ‘‘fiscal year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘biennium’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘that fis-
cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year in 
such biennium’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘4 fiscal 
years following the fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘4 
fiscal years following the biennium’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year’’ and inserting ‘‘biennium’’. 
(2) CHANGES.—Section 1106(b) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by— 
(A) striking ‘‘the fiscal year’’ and inserting 
‘‘each fiscal year in the biennium’’; and 
(B) inserting ‘‘and before February 15 of 
each even-numbered year’’ after ‘‘Before July 
16 of each year’’. 
(g) CURRENT PROGRAMS
AND ACTIVITIES ESTI-
MATES.— 
(1) THE PRESIDENT.—Section 1109(a) of title 
31, United States Code, is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘On or before the first 
Monday after January 3 of each year (on or be-
fore February 5 in 1986)’’ and inserting ‘‘At 
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the same time the budget required by section 
1105 is submitted for a biennium’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘the following fiscal year’’ 
and inserting ‘‘each fiscal year of such period’’. 
(2) JOINT
ECONOMIC
COMMITTEE.—Section 
1109(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended 
by striking ‘‘March 1 of each year’’ and inserting 
‘‘within 6 weeks of the President’s budget submis-
sion for each odd-numbered year (or, if applicable, 
as provided by section 300(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974)’’. 
(h) YEAR-AHEAD
REQUESTS
FOR
AUTHORIZING 
LEGISLATION.—Section 1110 of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by— 
(1) striking ‘‘May 16’’ and inserting ‘‘March 
31’’; and 
(2) striking ‘‘year before the year in which the 
fiscal year begins’’ and inserting ‘‘calendar year pre-
ceding the calendar year in which the biennium be-
gins’’. 
SEC. 126. TWO-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS; TITLE AND STYLE 
OF APPROPRIATION ACTS. 
Section 105 of title 1, United States Code, is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
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‘‘§ 105. Title and style of appropriations Acts 
‘‘(a) The style and title of all Acts making appropria-
tions for the support of the Government shall be as fol-
lows: ‘An Act making appropriations (here insert the ob-
ject) for each fiscal year in the biennium of fiscal years 
(here insert the fiscal years of the biennium).’. 
‘‘(b) All Acts making regular appropriations for the 
support of the Government shall be enacted for a biennium 
and shall specify the amount of appropriations provided 
for each fiscal year in such period. 
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘biennium’ 
has the same meaning as in section 3(13) of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
U.S.C. 622(13)).’’. 
SEC. 127. MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 (as amended by section 116(a)) is 
further amended by adding at the end the following new 
section: 
‘‘MULTIYEAR AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 318. (a) It shall not be in order in the House 
of Representatives or the Senate to consider any measure 
that contains a specific authorization of appropriations for 
any purpose unless the measure includes such a specific 
authorization of appropriations for that purpose for not 
less than each fiscal year in one or more bienniums. 
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‘‘(b)(1) For purposes of this section, a specific au-
thorization of appropriations is an authorization for the 
enactment of an amount of appropriations or amounts not 
to exceed an amount of appropriations (whether stated as 
a sum certain, as a limit, or as such sums as may be nec-
essary) for any purpose for a fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to 
an authorization of appropriations for a single fiscal year 
for any program, project, or activity if the measure con-
taining that authorization includes a provision expressly 
stating the following: ‘Congress finds that no authoriza-
tion of appropriation will be required for [Insert name of 
applicable program, project, or activity] for any subse-
quent fiscal year.’. 
‘‘(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘measure’ 
means a bill, joint resolution, amendment, motion, or con-
ference report.’’. 
(b) AMENDMENT TO TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The 
table of contents set forth in section 1(b) of the Congres-
sional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is 
amended by adding after the item relating to section 317 
the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 318. Multiyear authorizations of appropriations.’’. 
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SEC. 128. GOVERNMENT STRATEGIC AND PERFORMANCE 
PLANS ON A BIENNIAL BASIS. 
(a) STRATEGIC PLANS.—Section 306 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘September 
30, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2009’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘at least every three years’’ 
and all that follows thereafter and inserting ‘‘at 
least every 4 years, except that strategic plans 
submitted by September 30, 2009, shall be up-
dated and revised by September 30, 2012’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘five years forward’’ and 
inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma 
after ‘‘section’’ the second place it appears and add-
ing ‘‘including a strategic plan submitted by Sep-
tember 30, 2009, meeting the requirements of sub-
section (a)’’. 
(b) BUDGET CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION TO CON-
GRESS.—Paragraph (28) of section 1105(a) of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘beginning 
with fiscal year 1999, a’’ and inserting ‘‘beginning with 
fiscal year 2012, a biennial’’. 
(c) PERFORMANCE PLANS.—Section 1115 of title 31, 
United States Code, is amended— 
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(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in the matter before paragraph (1) by 
striking ‘‘an annual’’ and inserting ‘‘a bien-
nial’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1) by inserting after 
‘‘program activity’’ the following: ‘‘for both 
years 1 and 2 of the biennial plan’’; 
(C) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘and’’ 
after the semicolon; 
(D) in paragraph (6) by striking the period 
and inserting a semicolon; and inserting ‘‘and’’ 
after the inserted semicolon; and 
(E) by adding after paragraph (6) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(7) cover each fiscal year of the biennium be-
ginning with the first fiscal year of the next biennial 
budget cycle.’’; 
(2) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘annual’’ and 
inserting ‘‘biennial’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (6) of subsection (g) by strik-
ing ‘‘annual’’ and inserting ‘‘biennial’’. 
(d) MANAGERIAL
ACCOUNTABILITY
AND
FLEXI-
BILITY.—Section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, re-
lating to managerial accountability, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘an-
nual’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘section 1105(a)(29)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘section 1105(a)(28)’’; 
(2) in subsection (e)— 
(A) in the first sentence by striking ‘‘one 
or’’ before ‘‘two years’’; 
(B) in the second sentence by striking ‘‘a 
subsequent year’’ and inserting ‘‘for a subse-
quent 2-year period’’; and 
(C) in the third sentence by striking 
‘‘three’’ and inserting ‘‘four’’. 
(e) STRATEGIC PLANS.—Section 2802 of title 39, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘September 
30, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2009’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘at least every 
three years’’ and inserting ‘‘at least every 4 years 
except that strategic plans submitted by September 
30, 2009, shall be updated and revised by September 
30, 2012’’; 
(3) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘five years 
forward’’ and inserting ‘‘six years forward’’; and 
(4) in subsection (c), by inserting a comma 
after ‘‘section’’ the second place it appears and in-
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