I
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 354
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
to provide for the expedited consideration of certain proposed rescissions
of budget authority.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 5, 1993
Mr. SLATTERY introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Government Operations 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 rescissions of budget authority.
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 Rescissions 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
RESCISSIONS
‘‘SEC. 1013. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSION OF BUDGET
AUTHORITY.—In addition to the method of rescinding
budget authority specified in section 1012, the President
may propose, at the time and in the manner provided in
subsection (b), the rescission of any budget authority pro-
vided in an appropriations Act. Funds made available for
obligation under this procedure may not be proposed for
rescission again under this section or section 1012.
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—
‘‘(1) Not later than 3 days after the date of en-
actment of an appropriation Act, the President may
transmit to Congress a special message proposing to
rescind amounts of budget authority provided in
that Act and include with that special message a
draft bill or joint resolution that, if enacted, would
only rescind that budget authority.
‘‘(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that
includes accounts within the jurisdiction of more
than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appro-
priations, the President in proposing to rescind
budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
arate special message and accompanying draft bill or
joint resolution for accounts within the jurisdiction
of each such subcommittee.
‘‘(3) Each special message shall specify, with
respect to the budget authority proposed to be re-
scinded, the matters referred to in paragraphs (1)
through (5) of section 1012(a).
‘‘(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNTS SUBJECT TO RESCIS-
SION.—
‘‘(1) The amount of budget authority which the
President may propose to rescind in a special mes-
sage under this section for a particular program,
project, or activity for a fiscal year may not exceed
25 percent of the amount appropriated for that pro-
gram, project, or activity in that Act.
‘‘(2) The limitation contained in paragraph (1)
shall only apply to a program, project, or activity
that is authorized by law.
‘‘(d) 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