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‘‘(B) The amount of reductions required
under section 252, the excess deficit remaining
after those reductions have been made, and the
amount of reductions required under section
253 
from 
defense 
accounts 
and 
from
nondefense accounts.
‘‘(C) The sequestration percentage nec-
essary to achieve the required reduction in de-
fense accounts under section 253(d).
‘‘(D) The reductions required under sec-
tions 253(e)(1) and 253(e)(2).
‘‘(E) The sequestration percentage nec-
essary to achieve the required reduction in
nondefense accounts under section 253(e)(3).
The CBO report need not set forth the items other
than the maximum deficit amount for fiscal year
1992, 1993, or any fiscal year for which the Presi-
dent notifies the House of Representatives and the
Senate that he will adjust the maximum deficit
amount 
under 
the 
option 
under 
section
253(g)(1)(B).
‘‘(5) EXPLANATION
OF
DIFFERENCES.—The
OMB reports shall thoroughly explain the dif-
ferences between OMB and CBO estimates for each
item set forth in this subsection.
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‘‘(d) NOTIFICATION REGARDING MILITARY PERSON-
NEL.—On or before the date specified in subsection (a),
the President shall notify the Congress of the manner in
which he intends to exercise flexibility with respect to mili-
tary personnel accounts under section 255(f).
‘‘(e) B ILL COST REPORTS.—As soon as practicable
after Congress completes action on any discretionary ap-
propriation or legislation affecting direct spending or re-
ceipts, and after consultation with the committees on the
Budget of the House and Senate, CBO shall provide OMB
with an estimate of the entry or entries to be made on
the appropriate scorecard as a result of that legislation.
Within 5 calendar days after the enactment of any such
legislation (enacted after the date of enactment of this
Act) OMB shall transmit a report to the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate containing the CBO estimate
of the scorecard entry or entries for that legislation,
OMB’s estimate for the same legislation, and a thorough
explanation of any difference between the 2 estimates.
CBO and OMB shall prepare estimates under this sub-
section in conformance with the baseline rules under sub-
section 257, the scorecard rules under section 251 or 252
as applicable, and scorekeeping guidelines determined
after consultation among the House and Senate Commit-
tees on the Budget, CBO, and OMB.
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‘‘(f) S CORECARD REPORTS.—On or before the date
specified in subsection (a) and weekly thereafter through
the adjournment of Congress, OMB shall transmit a re-
port to the House of Representatives and the Senate con-
taining the discretionary and the pay-as-you-go scorecards
prepared by CBO and OMB, each updated to reflect all
bill cost reports issued under subsection (e).
‘‘(g) FINAL SEQUESTRATION REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) R EPORTING REQUIREMENT.—On or before
the dates specified in subsection (a), OMB and CBO
shall issue a final sequestration report, updated to
reflect laws enacted through those dates.
‘‘(2) 
DISCRETIONARY
SEQUESTRATION
RE-
PORTS.—The final reports shall set forth estimates
for each of the following:
‘‘(A) For the current fiscal year and each
subsequent year through 1998 the applicable
discretionary limits and an explanation of any
adjustments in such limits under section
251(b).
‘‘(B) For the current year and the budget
year the estimated discretionary new budget au-
thority and outlays and the budget-year breach,
if any.
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‘‘(C) The sequestration percentages nec-
essary to achieve the required reduction.
‘‘(D) For the budget year, for each ac-
count to be sequestered, estimates of the base-
line level of nonexempt budget authority and re-
sulting outlays and the amount of nonexempt
budget authority to be sequestered and result-
ing outlay reductions.
‘‘(3) P AY-AS-YOU-GO AND DEFICIT SEQUESTRA-
TION REPORTS.—The final reports shall contain all
the information required in the pay-as-you-go and
deficit sequestration preview reports. In addition,
these reports shall contain, for the budget year, for
each account to be sequestered, estimates of the
baseline level of outlays for nonexempt direct spend-
ing programs and the amount to be sequestered. The
reports shall also contain estimates of the outlay
effects in each outyear resulting from the sequestra-
tion.
‘‘(4) EXPLANATION
OF
DIFFERENCES.—The
OMB report shall explain any differences between
OMB and CBO estimates of the amount of any net
deficit change calculated under section 252(a), any
excess deficit, any breach, and any required seques-
tration percentage. The OMB report shall also ex-
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plain differences in the amount of sequestrable re-
sources for any budget account to be reduced if that
difference is greater than $5,000,000.
‘‘(h) WITHIN-SESSION SEQUESTRATION REPORTS.—
If a within-session sequestration is required under section
251(e), 10 days later CBO shall issue a report containing
the information required in subsection (g)(2). Fifteen days
after enactment, OMB shall issue a report containing the
information required in subsections (g) (2) and (4).
‘‘(i) P RESIDENTIAL ORDER.—On the day OMB is-
sues a report under subsection (g) or (h), if in that report
OMB estimates that any sequestration is required, the
President shall issue an order fully implementing without
change all sequestrations required by the OMB calcula-
tions set forth in that report. The order shall be effective
on issuance.
‘‘(j) GAO COMPLIANCE REPORT.—On the date speci-
fied in subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall sub-
mit to the Congress and the President a report on—
‘‘(1) the extent to which each order issued by
the President under this section complies with all of
the requirements contained in this Act, either cer-
tifying that the order fully and accurately complies
with such requirements or indicating the respects in
which it does not; and
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‘‘(2) the extent to which each report issued by
OMB or CBO under this section complies with all of
the requirements contained in this Act, either cer-
tifying that the report fully and accurately complies
with such requirements or indicating the respects in
which it does not.
‘‘(k) LOW-GROWTH REPORT.—At any time, CBO
shall notify the Congress if—
‘‘(1) during the period consisting of the quarter
during which such notification is given, the quarter
preceding such notification, and the 4 quarters fol-
lowing such notification, CBO or OMB has deter-
mined that real economic growth is projected or esti-
mated to be less than zero with respect to each of
any 2 consecutive quarters within such period; or
‘‘(2) the most recent of the Department of
Commerce’s advance preliminary or final reports of
actual real economic growth indicate that the rate of
real economic growth for each of the most recently
reported quarter and the immediately preceding
quarter is less than one percent.
‘‘(l) OMB’S ESTIMATING ASSUMPTIONS.—In all re-
ports required by this section, OMB shall use current eco-
nomic and technical assumptions.’’.
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Revenue Code of 1954 shall be exempt from reduction
under any order issued under this Act.
‘‘(e) NON-DEFENSE UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—Un-
obligated balances of budget authority carried over from
prior fiscal years, except balances in the defense function,
shall be exempt from reduction under any order issued
under this Act.
‘‘(f) O PTIONAL EXEMPTION OF MILITARY PERSON-
NEL.—
‘‘(1) The President may, with respect to any
military personnel account, exempt that account
from sequestration or provide for a lower uniform
percentage reduction than would otherwise apply.
‘‘(2) The President may not use the authority
provided by paragraph (1) unless he notifies the
Congress of the manner in which such authority will
be exercised on or before the date specified in sec-
tion 254(d) for the budget year.
‘‘(g) OTHER PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(1)(A) The following budget accounts and ac-
tivities shall be exempt from reduction under any
order issued under this Act:
‘‘Activities resulting from private dona-
tions, bequests, or voluntary contributions to
the Government;
1523
‘‘Administration of Territories, Northern
Mariana Islands Covenant grants (14–0412–0–
1–808);
‘‘Alaska Power Administration, Operation
and maintenance (89–0304–0–1–271);
‘‘Appropriations for the District of Colum-
bia (to the extent they are appropriations of lo-
cally raised funds);
‘‘Bonneville Power Administration fund
and borrowing authority established pursuant
to section 13 of Public Law 93–454 (1974), as
amended (89–4045–0–3–271);
‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, Indian land
and water claim settlements and miscellaneous
payments to Indians (14–2303–0–1–452);
‘‘Bureau of Indian Affairs, Miscellaneous
trust funds (14–9973–0–7–999);
‘‘Claims, defense (97–0102–0–1–051);
‘‘Claims, judgments, and relief acts (20–
1895–0–1–808);
‘‘Coinage profit fund (20–5811–0–2–803);
‘‘Compact of Free Association, (14–0415–
0–1–808);
‘‘Compensation of the President (11–
0001–0–1–802);
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‘‘Conservation Reserve Program (12-3319-
0-1-302);
‘‘Credit liquidating and financing accounts;
‘‘Customs Service, miscellaneous perma-
nent appropriations (20–9922–0–2–806);
‘‘Comptroller of the Currency, Assessment
funds (20–8413–0–8–373);
‘‘Dual benefits payments account (60–
0111–0–1–601);
‘‘Exchange stabilization fund (20–4444–0–
3–155);
‘‘Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Bank Insurance Fund (51–4064–0–3–373);
‘‘Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
FSLIC Resolution Fund (51–4065–0–3–373);
‘‘Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
Savings Association Insurance Fund (51–4066–
0–3–373);
‘‘Federal Housing Finance Board (95–
4039–0–3–371);
‘‘Federal payment to the railroad retire-
ment accounts (60–0113–0–1–601);
‘‘Foreign military sales trust fund (11–
8242–0–7–155);
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‘‘Health professions graduate student loan
insurance program account (Health Education
Assistance Loan Program) (75–0340–0–1–
552);
‘‘Higher education facilities loans (91–
0240–01–502);
‘‘Internal Revenue collections for Puerto
Rico (20–5737–0–2–806);
‘‘Intragovernmental funds, including those
from which the outlays are derived primarily
from resources paid in from other government
accounts, except to the extent such funds are
augmented by direct appropriations for the fis-
cal year during which an order is in effect;
‘‘Panama Canal Commission, Panama
Canal Revolving Fund (95–4061–0–3–403);
‘‘Medical facilities guarantee and loan
fund, Federal interest subsidies for medical fa-
cilities (75–9931–0–3–550);
‘‘National Credit Union Administration op-
erating fund (25–4056–0–3–373);
‘‘National Credit Union Administration,
Central liquidity facility (25–4470–0–3–373);
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‘‘National Credit Union Administration,
Credit union share insurance fund (25–4468–
0–3–373);
‘‘Office of Thrift Supervision (20–4108–0–
3–373);
‘‘Payment of Vietnam and USS ‘Pueblo’
prisoner-of-war claims (15–0104–0–1–153);
‘‘Payment to civil service retirement and
disability fund (24–0200–0–1–805);
‘‘Payment to Judiciary Trust Funds (10–
0941–0–1–752);
‘‘Payments to copyright owners (03–5175–
0–2–376);
‘‘Payments to health care trust funds (75–
0580–0–1–571);
‘‘Payment to military retirement fund (97–
0040–0–1–054);
‘‘Payments to social security trust funds
(75–0404–0–1–651);
‘‘Payments to the foreign service retire-
ment and disability fund (11–1036–0–1–153
and 19–0540–0–1–153);
‘‘Payments to trust funds from excise
taxes or other receipts properly creditable to
such trust funds;
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‘‘Payments to the United States terri-
tories, fiscal assistance (14–0418–0–1–806);
‘‘Payments to widows and heirs of de-
ceased Members of Congress (00–0215–0–1–
801);
‘‘Postal service fund (18–4020–0–3–372);
‘‘Resolution Trust Corporation Revolving
Fund (22–4055–0–3–373);
‘‘Salaries of Article III judges;
‘‘Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home, payments
of claims (84–8930–0–7–705);
‘‘Southeastern Power Administration, Op-
eration and maintenance (89–0302–0–1–271);
‘‘Southwestern Power Administration, Op-
eration and maintenance (89–0303–0–1–271);
‘‘Tennessee Valley Authority fund, except
non-power programs and activities (64–4110–
0–3–999);
‘‘Thrift Savings Fund;
‘‘United States Enrichment Corporation
Fund (95–4054–0–3–271);
‘‘Vaccine Injury Compensation (75–0320–
0–1–551);
‘‘Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
Trust Fund (20–8175–0–7–551);
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‘‘Judicial Officers’ Retirement Fund (10–
8122–0–7–602);
‘‘Claims Court Judges’ Retirement Fund
(10–8124–0–7–602);
‘‘Special workers compensation expenses
(Longshoremen’s 
and 
harborworkers’ 
com-
pensation benefits) (16–9971–0–7–601);
‘‘Military retirement fund (97–8097–0–7–
602);
‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration retirement (13–1450–0–1–306);
‘‘Pensions for former Presidents (47–
0105–0–1–802);
‘‘Rail Industry Pension Fund (60–8011–
0–7–601);
‘‘Railroad supplemental annuity pension
fund (60–8012–0–7–602);
‘‘Retired pay, Coast Guard (69–0241–0–1–
403);
‘‘Retirement pay and medical benefits for
commissioned officers, Public Health Service
(75–0379–0–1–551);
‘‘Special 
benefits 
(Federal 
Employees’
Compensation Act) (16–1521–0–1–600);
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‘‘Special benefits for disabled coal miners
(75–0409–0–1–601); and
‘‘Tax Court judges survivors annuity fund
(23–8115–0–7–602).
‘‘(2) Prior legal obligations of the Government
in the following budget accounts and activities shall
be exempt from any order issued under this Act:
‘‘Biomass energy development (20–0114–
0–1–271);
‘‘United States Treasury check forgery in-
surance fund (20–4109–0–3–803);
‘‘Employees life insurance fund (24–8424–
0–8–602);
‘‘Energy security reserve (Synthetic Fuels
Corporation) (20–0112–0–1–271);
‘‘Federal Aviation Administration, Aviation
insurance revolving fund (69–4120–0–3–402);
‘‘Federal Crop Insurance Corporation fund
(12–4085–0–3–351);
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency,
National flood insurance fund (58–4236–0–3–
453);
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency,
National insurance development fund (58–
4235–0–3–451);
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‘‘Geothermal resources development fund
(89–0206–0–1–271);
‘‘Homeowners assistance fund, Defense
(97–4090–0–3–051);
‘‘International Trade Administration, Op-
erations and administration (13–1250–0–1–
376);
‘‘Low-rent public housing, Loans and other
expenses (86–4098–0–3–604);
‘‘Maritime Administration, War-risk insur-
ance revolving fund (69–4302–0–3–403);
‘‘Overseas Private Investment Corporation
(71–4030–0–3–151);
‘‘Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
fund (16–4204–0–3–601);
‘‘Rail service assistance (69–0122–0–1–
401);
‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Service-
men’s group life insurance fund (36–4009–0–3–
701).
‘‘(h) L OW-INCOME PROGRAMS.—The following pro-
grams shall be exempt from reduction under any order is-
sued under this Act:
‘‘Aid to families with dependent children (75–
1501–0–1–609);
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‘‘Child nutrition (12–3539–0–1–605);
‘‘Commodity supplemental food program (12–
3512–0–1–605);
‘‘Food stamp programs (12–3505–0–1–605 and
12–3550–0–1–605);
‘‘Grants to States for Medicaid (75–0512–0–1–
551);
‘‘Supplemental Security Income Program (75–
0406–0–1–609); and
‘‘Women, infants, and children program (12–
3510–0–1–605).
‘‘(i) I DENTIFICATION OF PROGRAMS.—For purposes
of subsections (b), (g), and (h), each account is identified
by the designated budget account identification code num-
ber set forth in the Budget of the United States Govern-
ment, 1994—Appendix, and an activity within an account
is designated by the name of the activity and the identi-
fication code number of the account.’’.
SEC. 
15107. 
GENERAL 
AND 
SPECIAL 
SEQUESTRATION
RULES.
Section 256 is amended as follows:
(1) Strike the section heading and insert the
following new section heading:
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‘‘SEC. 
256. 
GENERAL 
AND 
SPECIAL 
SEQUESTRATION
RULES.’’.
(2) Subsection (a) is amended by striking
‘‘part’’ and inserting ‘‘Act’’.
(3) Subsection (b) is repealed and subsection
(a) is redesignated as subsection (b).
(4) A new subsection (a) is inserted, as follows:
‘‘(a) B UDGET-YEAR SEQUESTRATION.—For each di-
rect spending program subject to sequestration under this
Act, a sequestration shall apply for the period starting on
the date the sequestration order under section 254 is is-
sued and ending on the last day of the budget year, unless
a different period is specified in this section. For purposes
of section 253, the amount estimated to be saved in all
fiscal years by a budget-year sequestration under section
252 or 253 shall be considered to have been saved in the
budget year.’’.
(5) Subsection (e)(1) is amended by striking
‘‘be—’’ and all that follows through ‘‘subsequent fis-
cal year’’ and inserting ‘‘be 2 percent’’.
(6) Subsection (h)(4) is amended by striking
‘‘(D) Office of Thrift Supervision.’’ and ‘‘(H) Reso-
lution Funding Corporation.’’ and redesignating the
remaining subparagraphs accordingly.
(7) Subsection (j) is amended by striking ‘‘joint
resolution’’ and inserting ‘‘Act’’ each place it ap-
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pears and by amending paragraph (5) to read as
follows:
‘‘(5) D AIRY PROGRAM.—Notwithstanding other
provisions of this subsection, as the sole means of
achieving any reduction in outlays under the milk
price support program, the Secretary of Agriculture
shall provide for a reduction to be made in the price
received by producers for all milk produced in the
United States and marketed by producers for com-
mercial use. That price reduction (measured in cents
per hundredweight of milk marketed) shall occur
under subparagraph (A) of section 201(d)(2) of the
Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446(d)(2)(A)),
shall begin on the day any sequestration order is is-
sued under section 254, and shall not exceed the ag-
gregate amount of the reduction in outlays under
the milk price support program that otherwise would
have been achieved by reducing payments for the
purchase of milk or the products of milk under this
subsection during the applicable fiscal year.’’.
(8) Subsection (k)(2) is amended by striking
the dash the second place it appears and all that fol-
lows through ‘‘(I)’’; and by striking ‘‘; or’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘(II)’’ and inserting ‘‘, except
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that a State may not be allotted an amount under
this subparagraph that exceeds’’.
(9) Subsection (l) is redesignated as subsection
(m) and is amended by striking paragraph (4) and
by redesignating paragraphs (5) and (6) as para-
graphs (4) and (5), respectively’’.
(10) After subsection (k) add the following new
subsection:
‘‘(l) S TUDENT LOANS.—For all student loans under
part B or D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of
1965 made during the period when a sequestration order
under section 254 is in effect, origination fees under sec-
tions 438(c)(2) and 456(c) of that Act shall be increased
by a uniform percentage sufficient to produce the dollar
savings in student loan programs (as a result of that
sequestration order) required by section 252 or 253, as
applicable.’’.
SEC. 15108. THE BASELINE.
Section 257 is amended as follows:
(1) In subsection (a), insert ‘‘, and discre-
tionary regulations promulgated as final by,’’ after
‘‘through’’.
(2) In subsection (b), strike ‘‘budget year’’ and
insert ‘‘current year, the budget year,’’.
(3) Amend subsection (b)(1) to read as follows:
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‘‘(1) I N GENERAL.—Laws providing or creating
direct spending and receipts are assumed to operate
in the manner specified in those laws for each such
year, funding for mandatory appropriations is as-
sumed to be adequate to make all payments required
by those mandates, and regulations over which the
President has discretion are assumed to remain in
effect as they were at the time the baseline for the
budget year was first completed.’’.
(4) Amend subsection (b)(2)(A) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(A) No program with estimated current-
year gross new budget authority greater than
$50,000,000 is assumed to expire in the budget
year or outyears. In carrying out the preceding
sentence, expiring programs funded by manda-
tory appropriations or by indefinite budget au-
thority are assumed to continue under the di-
rect spending law in effect just prior to their
expiration, and other expiring programs are as-
sumed to continue with new budget authority
projected as under subsection (c)(4).’’.
(5) In subsection (b)(2)(B), insert ‘‘percentage’’
before ‘‘increase’’.
(6) Amend subsection (b)(3) to read as follows:
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‘‘(3) CUTOFF DATE.—Programs or taxes that
expire on or before December 31 and that have not
been reauthorized by the date of the final sequestra-
tion report are assumed to expire. If an increase in
veterans compensation for the budget year has not
been enacted by the date of the final sequestration
report, it is not assumed.’’.
(7) In subsection (c), strike ‘‘budget year’’ and
insert ‘‘current year, the budget year,’’ and strike
‘‘all amounts other than those covered by subsection
(b)’’ and insert ‘‘discretionary programs’’.
(8) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (c)
are amended to read as follows:
‘‘(1) INFLATION OF CURRENT-YEAR APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—
‘‘(A) Gross new budget authority shall be
at the level provided for that fiscal year in ap-
propriation Acts and discretionary offsetting
collections shall be at the estimated level re-
quired by existing law (assuming the baseline
level of gross new budget authority).
‘‘(B) If for any account an appropriation
has not yet been enacted, gross new budget au-
thority is assumed to be at the level available
in the current year, adjusted for expiring hous-
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ing contracts as specified in paragraph (2), for
social insurance administrative expenses as
specified in paragraph (3), for inflation as spec-
ified in paragraph (4), and to account for
changes required by law in the level of agency
payments for personnel benefits other than pay.
‘‘(2) EXPIRING
HOUSING
CONTRACTS.—New
budget authority to renew expiring multiyear sub-
sidized housing contracts or provide contracts to re-
place units lost due to prepayments shall be adjusted
to reflect the difference in the number of such con-
tracts that are estimated to expire or be prepaid in
that fiscal year and the number expiring or being
prepaid in the current year.’’.
(9) In subsection (c)(3), strike ‘‘Budgetary’’
and insert ‘‘New budgetary’’, insert ‘‘or number of
claims, as applicable,’’ after ‘‘population’’, and insert
‘‘the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust
Fund,’’ after the colon.
(10) In subsection (c), strike paragraph (4) and
redesignate paragraphs (5) and (6) as (4) and (5),
respectively.
(11) Amend the first sentence of subsection
(c)(4) to read as follows: ‘‘The inflator to adjust new
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budget authority relating to civilian personnel is the
percent by which the average rate of basic pay for
the general schedule pay system, calculated as speci-
fied in sections 5303(a) and 5304 of title 5, United
States Code, for that fiscal year exceeds the average
rate of basic pay for the current year. The inflator
for military personnel is the percent by which the
average rate of basic pay, as specified in section
1009 of title 37, United States Code, for that fiscal
year exceeds the average rate of basic pay for the
current year.’’.
(12) In the second sentence of subsection
(c)(4), strike ‘‘used in paragraph (1)’’ and strike
‘‘national’’ and insert ‘‘domestic’’.
(13) Amend the side heading and first sentence
of subsection (c)(5) to read as follows: ‘‘PART-YEAR
APPROPRIATIONS; PERMISSIVE TRANSFERS.—If, for
any account, a continuing appropriation is in effect
for less than an entire fiscal year, then the amount
available for that fiscal year is assumed to equal the
amount that would be available if that continuing
appropriation covered the entire fiscal year.’’.
(14) In the second sentence of subsection
(c)(5), insert ‘‘or midsession review’’ after ‘‘original
budget’’.
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(15) Amend subsection (e) to read as follows:
‘‘(e) ASSET SALES.—Amounts realized from new
asset sales shall not be counted for purposes of this sec-
tion. Asset sales shall not be considered new if the author-
ity to make those sales was enacted in a prior session of
Congress or is a reauthorization of routine, ongoing asset
sales at levels consistent with agency operations in fiscal
year 1993.’’.
SEC. 15109. FAST-TRACK PROCEDURES.
(a) R EPEALER.—The first section 258 (relating to
modification of Presidential orders) is repealed.
(b) C ONFORMING AMENDMENT.—In the second sec-
tion 258, strike ‘‘254(j)’’ each time it appears and insert
‘‘254(k)’’; strike ‘‘310(d)’’ and insert ‘‘310(c)’’; and in
subsection (a)(4)(A) strike ‘‘discharged pursuant’’ and in-
sert ‘‘discharged in the Senate pursuant’’.
(c) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—In 
section
258A(b)(6), strike ‘‘, IV, and VI’’ and insert ‘‘and IV’’.
(d) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—In 
section
258B(k), strike ‘‘306, and 401(b)(1)’’ and insert ‘‘and
306’’.
(e) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—In 
section
258C(a)(1), strike ‘‘sequestration update’’ and insert
‘‘scorecard’’ and strike ‘‘or 253’’.
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SEC. 15110. JUDICIAL REVIEW.
Section 274 is amended as follows:
(1) Strike ‘‘252’’ or ‘‘252(b)’’ each place it oc-
curs and insert ‘‘254’’.
(2) In subsection (d)(1)(A), strike ‘‘257(l) to
the extent that’’ and insert ‘‘256(b) if’’, strike the
parenthetical phrase, and at the end insert ‘‘or’’.
(3) In subsection (d)(1)(B), strike ‘‘new budg-
et’’ and all that follows through ‘‘spending author-
ity’’ and insert ‘‘budgetary resources’’ and strike
‘‘or’’ after the comma.
(4) Strike subsection (d)(1)(C).
(5) Strike subsection (f) and redesignate sub-
sections (g) and (h) as subsections (f) and (g), re-
spectively.
(6) Amend subsection (g) to read as follows:
‘‘(g) ECONOMIC DATA, A SSUMPTIONS, AND METH-
ODOLOGIES.—The economic data and economic assump-
tions used by the Director of OMB in preparing the budg-
et of the United States Government, or in making calcula-
tions under this Act, shall not be subject to review in any
judicial or administrative proceeding.’’.
SEC. 15111. EFFECTIVE DATE.
(a) EXPIRATION.—Section 275(b) is amended to read
as follows:
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(2) Amend the second paragraph (2) to read as
follows:
‘‘(2) BUDGET AUTHORITY AND NEW BUDGET
AUTHORITY.—
‘‘(A) I N GENERAL.—The term ‘budget au-
thority’
means
the
authority
provided
by
Federal law to incur financial obligations, as
follows:
‘‘(i) provisions of law that make funds
available for obligation and expenditure
(other than borrowing authority), including
the authority to obligate and expend the
proceeds of offsetting receipts and collec-
tions;
‘‘(ii) 
borrowing 
authority, 
which
means authority granted to a Federal en-
tity to borrow, obligate, and expend the
borrowed funds, including through the is-
suance of promissory notes or other mone-
tary credits;
‘‘(iii) contract authority, which means
the making of funds available for obliga-
tion but not for expenditure; or
‘‘(iv) offsetting receipts and collections
as
negative
budget
authority,
and
the
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reduction thereof
as
positive
budget
authority.
‘‘(B) LIMITATIONS ON BUDGET AUTHOR-
ITY.—Any amount that is precluded from obli-
gation in a fiscal year by a provision of law
(such as a limitation or a benefit formula) shall
not be budget authority in that year.
‘‘(C) L OAN COSTS.—The term ‘budget au-
thority’ includes the cost for direct loan and
loan guarantee programs, as those terms are
defined by title V.
‘‘(D) DIRECT SPENDING.—The term ‘di-
rect spending’ means budget authority provided
by law other than an appropriation Act or by
a law that determines amounts needed to fund
mandatory appropriations (including the food
stamp program), but such term does not in-
clude salary or basic pay funded through an ap-
propriation Act.
‘‘(E) NEW
BUDGET
AUTHORITY.—The
term ‘new budget authority’ means, with re-
spect to a fiscal year—
‘‘(i) budget authority that first be-
comes available for obligation in that year,
including budget authority that becomes
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available in that year as a result of a reap-
propriation; or
‘‘(ii) a change in any account in the
availability of unobligated balances of
budget authority carried over from a prior
year, resulting from a provision of law first
effective in that year.
New budget authority, with respect to a fiscal
year, includes a change in the estimated level of
the authority to incur obligations in an account
that, under existing law, has authority to obli-
gate indefinite amounts, if the change results
from a change in law.’’.
(3) Repeal paragraph (9), redesignate para-
graphs (3) through (8) as paragraphs (4) through
(9), and insert after paragraph (2) the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(3) DEFICIT IMPACT NUMBER (OR SURPLUS
IMPACT NUMBER).—The term ‘deficit impact num-
ber’ (or ‘surplus impact number’) means, with re-
spect to a fiscal year, the change in the deficit (or
surplus) that may be caused by any combination of
increases or decreases in direct spending and reve-
nue assumed by the most recently agreed to concur-
rent resolution to be enacted in the current session
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of Congress and allocated to a committee. An impact
number greater than zero increases the deficit (or
decreases the surplus) and an impact number less
than zero decreases the deficit (or increases the
surplus).’’.
(4) Amend paragraph (6) (as redesignated) by
inserting before the period the following: ‘‘, and the
term ‘appropriation measure’ means a general or
supplemental appropriation bill or a joint resolution
making continuing appropriations, but not yet en-
acted into law’’.
(5) At the end, add the following new para-
graph:
‘‘(11) The term ‘new credit authority’ means
credit authority not provided by law as of February
1, 1986, including any increase in or addition to
credit authority provided by law on such date.’’.
SEC. 15202. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE.
Title II of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is
amended as follows:
(1) The first section 201(g) is amended by
striking ‘‘(g)’’ and inserting ‘‘(f)’’.
(2) The side heading of section 202(f) is
amended by striking ‘‘ TO BUDGET COMMITTEES’’.
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(3) Section 202(f)(1) is amended by striking
‘‘On or before February 15 of each year’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Within 20 days after the President’s budget
submission’’.
(4) Section 202(f) is amended by adding at the
end the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(4) As soon as practicable after the beginning
of each fiscal year, the Director shall issue a report
projecting for the period of 5 fiscal years beginning
with such fiscal year—
‘‘(A) total new budget authority and total
budget outlays for each fiscal year in such
period;
‘‘(B) revenues to be received and the major
sources thereof, and the surplus or deficit, if
any, for each fiscal year in such period; and
‘‘(C) tax expenditures for each fiscal year
in such period.
‘‘(5)(A) The Director shall, to the extent prac-
ticable, prepare for each bill or joint resolution re-
ported by any committee of the House of Represent-
atives or the Senate (except the Committee on Ap-
propriations of each House), and submit to such
committee—
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‘‘(i) an estimate of the costs which would
be incurred in carrying out such bill or joint
resolution in the fiscal year in which it is to be-
come effective and in each of the 4 fiscal years
following such fiscal year, together with the
basis for each such estimate;
‘‘(ii) an estimate of the cost which would
be incurred by State and local governments in
carrying out or complying with any significant
bill or joint resolution in the fiscal year in
which it is to become effective and in each of
the four fiscal years following such fiscal year,
together with the basis for each such estimate;
and
‘‘(iii) a comparison of the estimates of
costs described in clauses (i) and (ii), with any
available estimates of costs made by such com-
mittee or by any Federal agency.
The estimates, comparison, and description so sub-
mitted shall be included in the report accompanying
such bill or joint resolution if timely submitted to
such committee before such report is filed.
‘‘(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(ii), the
term ‘local government’ has the same meaning as in
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section 103 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation
Act of 1968.
‘‘(C) For purposes of subparagraph (A)(ii), the
term ‘significant bill or joint resolution’ is defined as
any bill or joint resolution which in the judgment of
the Director of the Congressional Budget Office is
likely to result in an annual cost to State and local
governments of $200,000,000 or more, or is likely to
have exceptional fiscal consequences for a geographic
region or a particular level of government.’’.
(5) Section 202(h) is amended by striking
‘‘budget outlays, credit authority,’’ and insert ‘‘var-
ious forms of spending programs, including grants
and loans,’’.
SEC. 15203. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS.
Title III of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘TITLE III—CONGRESSIONAL
BUDGET PROCESS
‘‘SEC. 300. TIMETABLE.
‘‘The timetable with respect to the congressional
budget process for any fiscal year is as follows:
‘‘On or before:
Action to be completed:
First Monday in February ............
President submits the budget.
Six weeks after President’s budget
submission.
Committees submit views and esti-
mates to Budget Committees.
April 1 ...........................................
Senate Budget Committee reports
concurrent resolution on the budg-
et.
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‘‘On or before:
Action to be completed:
April 15 .........................................
Congress completes action on concur-
rent resolution on the budget.
May 15 ..........................................
House committees report bills author-
izing new budget authority.
June 10 .........................................
House Appropriations Committee re-
ports last annual appropriation bill.
June 30 .........................................
House completes action on annual ap-
propriation bills and (if required) a
reconciliation bill.
October 1 .......................................
Fiscal year begins.
‘‘SEC. 301. ANNUAL ADOPTION OF CONCURRENT RESOLU-
TION ON THE BUDGET.
‘‘(a) CONTENT OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON
THE BUDGET.—On or before April 15 of each year, the
Congress shall complete action on a concurrent resolution
on the budget. The concurrent resolution shall set forth
appropriate levels for the fiscal year beginning on October
1 of such year and for each of the 4 ensuing fiscal years,
for the following—
‘‘(1) totals of new budget authority and budget
outlays;
‘‘(2) total Federal revenues and the amount, if
any, by which the aggregate level of Federal reve-
nues should be increased or decreased by bills and
resolutions to be reported by the appropriate com-
mittees;
‘‘(3) the surplus or deficit in the budget;
‘‘(4) new budget authority and budget outlays
for each major functional category, based on alloca-
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tions of the total levels set forth pursuant to para-
graph (1);
‘‘(5) the public debt;
‘‘(6) for purposes of Senate enforcement under
this title, outlays of the old-age, survivors, and dis-
ability insurance program established under title II
of the Social Security Act for the fiscal year of the
resolution and for each of the 4 succeeding fiscal
years; and
‘‘(7) for purposes of Senate enforcement under
this title, revenues of the old-age, survivors, and dis-
ability insurance program established under title II
of the Social Security Act (and the related provisions
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) for the fiscal
year of the resolution and for each of the 4 succeed-
ing fiscal years.
Except to the extent required by paragraphs (6) and (7),
the concurrent resolution shall not include the outlays and
revenue totals of the old age, survivors, and disability in-
surance program established under title II of the Social
Security Act or the related provisions of the Internal Reve-
nue Code of 1986 in the surplus or deficit totals required
by this subsection or in any other surplus or deficit totals
required by this title. Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the receipts and disbursements of the Hospital In-
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surance Trust Fund shall be included in the computations
required by paragraphs (1) through (5), and no separate
display of Hospital Insurance Trust Fund receipts or al-
ternative displays of budget totals excluding Hospital in-
surance receipts and disbursements are required to be in-
cluded in any concurrent resolution on the budget.
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL MATTERS IN CONCURRENT RESO-
LUTION.—The concurrent resolution on the budget may—
‘‘(1) set forth, if required by subsection (f), the
calendar year in which, in the opinion of the Con-
gress, the goals for reducing unemployment set forth
in section 4(b) of the Employment Act of 1946
should be achieved;
‘‘(2) include reconciliation directives described
in section 310;
‘‘(3) set forth the appropriate level of the public
debt for purposes of rule XLIX of the Rules of the
House of Representatives; and
‘‘(4) set forth such other matters, and require
such other procedures, relating to the budget, as
may be appropriate to carry out the purposes of this
Act.
‘‘(c) CONSIDERATION OF PROCEDURES OR MATTERS
WHICH HAVE THE EFFECT OF CHANGING ANY RULE OF
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—If the Committee
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on the Budget of the House of Representatives reports
any concurrent resolution on the budget which includes
any procedure or matter which has the effect of changing
any rule of the House of Representatives, such concurrent
resolution shall then be referred to the Committee on
Rules with instructions to report it within five calendar
days (not counting any day on which the House is not
in session). The Committee on Rules shall have jurisdic-
tion to report any concurrent resolution referred to it
under this paragraph with an amendment or amendments
changing or striking out any such procedure or matter.
‘‘(d) VIEWS AND ESTIMATES OF OTHER COMMIT-
TEES.—Within 6 weeks after the President submits a
budget under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States
Code, each committee of the House of Representatives
having legislative jurisdiction may submit to the Commit-
tee on the Budget of the House and each committee of
the Senate having legislative jurisdiction may submit to
the Committee on the Budget of the Senate its views and
estimates (as determined by the committee making such
submission) with respect to all matters set forth in sub-
sections (a) and (b) which relate to matters within the
jurisdiction or functions of such committee. The Joint
Economic Committee shall submit to the Committees on
the Budget of both Houses its recommendations as to the
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fiscal policy appropriate to the goals of the Employment
Act of 1946. Any other committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate may submit to the Committee
on the Budget of its House, and any joint committee of
the Congress may submit to the Committees on the Budg-
et of both Houses, its views and estimates with respect
to all matters set forth in subsections (a) and (b) which
relate to matters within its jurisdiction or functions.
‘‘(e) HEARINGS AND REPORT.—In developing the
concurrent resolution on the budget referred to in sub-
section (a) for each fiscal year, the Committee on the
Budget of each House shall hold hearings and shall receive
testimony from Members of Congress and such appro-
priate representatives of Federal departments and agen-
cies, the general public, and national organizations as the
committee deems desirable. Each of the recommendations
as to short-term and medium-term goals set forth in the
report submitted by the members of the Joint Economic
Committee under subsection (d) may be considered by the
Committee on the Budget of each House as part of its
consideration of such concurrent resolution, and its report
may reflect its views thereon, including its views on how
the estimates of revenues and total levels of new budget
authority and outlays set forth in such concurrent resolu-
tion are designed to achieve any economic goals it is rec-
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ommending. The report accompanying such concurrent
resolution shall include, but not be limited to—
‘‘(1) a comparison of revenues estimated by the
committee with those estimated in the budget sub-
mitted by the President;
‘‘(2) a comparison of the appropriate levels of
total budget outlays and total new budget authority
as set forth in such concurrent resolution with those
estimated or requested in the budget submitted by
the President;
‘‘(3) with respect to each major functional cat-
egory, an estimate of budget outlays and an appro-
priate level of new budget authority for all proposed
programs and for all existing programs (including
renewals thereof), with the estimate and level for ex-
isting programs being divided between permanent
authority and funds provided in appropriation Acts,
and with each such division being subdivided be-
tween controllable amounts and all other amounts;
‘‘(4) an allocation of the level of Federal reve-
nues recommended in the concurrent resolution
among the major sources of such revenues;
‘‘(5) the economic assumptions and objectives
which underlie each of the matters set forth in such
concurrent resolution and any alternative economic
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assumptions and objectives which the committee
considered;
‘‘(6) the estimated levels of tax expenditures
(the tax expenditures budget) by major functional
categories;
‘‘(7) a statement of any significant changes in
the proposed levels of Federal assistance to State
and local governments;
‘‘(8) information, data, and comparisons indi-
cating the manner in which, and the basis on which,
the committee determined each of the matters set
forth in the concurrent resolution; and
‘‘(9) allocations described in sections 302(a)
and 311(a).
‘‘(f) A CHIEVEMENT OF GOALS FOR REDUCING UN-
EMPLOYMENT.—
‘‘(1) If, pursuant to section 4(c) of the Employ-
ment Act of 1946, the President recommends in the
Economic Report that the goals for reducing unem-
ployment set forth in section 4(b) of such Act be
achieved in a year after the close of the five-year pe-
riod prescribed by such subsection, the concurrent
resolution on the budget for the fiscal year begin-
ning after the date on which such Economic Report
is received by the Congress may set forth the year
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in which, in the opinion of the Congress, such goals
can be achieved.
‘‘(2) After the Congress has expressed its opin-
ion pursuant to paragraph (1) as to the year in
which the goals for reducing unemployment set forth
in section 4(b) of the Employment Act of 1946 can
be achieved, if, pursuant to section 4(e) of such Act,
the President recommends in the Economic Report
that such goals be achieved in a year which is dif-
ferent from the year in which the Congress has ex-
pressed its opinion that such goals should be
achieved, either in its action pursuant to paragraph
(1) or in its most recent action pursuant to this
paragraph, the concurrent resolution on the budget
for the fiscal year beginning after the date on which
such Economic Report is received by the Congress
may set forth the year in which, in the opinion of
the Congress, such goals can be achieved.
‘‘(g) ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS.—
‘‘(1) It shall not be in order in the Senate to
consider any concurrent resolution on the budget for
a fiscal year, or any amendment thereto, or any con-
ference report thereon, that sets forth amounts and
levels that are determined on the basis of more than
one set of economic and technical assumptions.
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‘‘(2) The joint explanatory statement accom-
panying a conference report on a concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget shall set forth the common eco-
nomic assumptions upon which such joint statement
and conference report are based, or upon which any
amendment contained in the joint explanatory state-
ment to be proposed by the conferees in the case of
technical disagreement, is based.
‘‘(3) Determinations by the Committee on the
Budget of the House of Representatives or the Sen-
ate, as the case may be, under titles III and IV of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall be based
upon
such
common
economic
and
technical
assumptions.
‘‘(h) BUDGET COMMITTEES CONSULTATION WITH
COMMITTEES.—The Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives shall consult with the commit-
tees of its House having legislative jurisdiction during the
preparation, consideration, and enforcement of the concur-
rent resolution on the budget with respect to all matters
which relate to the jurisdiction or functions of such com-
mittees. The Committee on the Budget of the House of
Representatives may not report a concurrent resolution on
the budget containing the matter referred to in subsection
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(b)(3) except after consultation with the Committee on
Ways and Means about that matter.
‘‘(i) SOCIAL SECURITY POINT OF ORDER IN THE
SENATE.—It shall not be in order in the Senate to con-
sider any concurrent resolution on the budget as reported
to the Senate or any amendment thereto that would de-
crease the excess of social security revenues over social se-
curity outlays in any of the fiscal years covered by the
concurrent resolution. No change in chapter 1 of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1986 shall be treated as affecting
the amount of social security revenues unless such provi-
sion changes the income tax treatment of social security
benefits.
‘‘SEC. 302. APPROPRIATION COMMITTEE ALLOCATIONS
AND ENFORCEMENT.
‘‘(a) COMMITTEE SPENDING ALLOCATIONS.—The
joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference
report on a budget resolution shall include an allocation,
consistent with the resolution recommended in the con-
ference report, of the appropriate levels (for the budget
year covered by that resolution) of total new budget au-
thority and total outlays for the Committee on Appropria-
tions of each House. The amounts so allocated shall be
further divided between discretionary and mandatory
amounts, as appropriate.
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‘‘(b) SUBDIVISIONS BY APPROPRIATIONS COMMIT-
TEES.—As soon as practicable after a budget resolution
is agreed to, the Committee on Appropriations of each
House shall subdivide each amount allocated to it for the
budget year under subsection (a) among its subcommit-
tees. Each Committee on Appropriations shall promptly
report to its House subdivisions made or revised under
this subsection.
‘‘(c) P OINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in order in
the House of Representatives or the Senate to consider
any appropriation measure, or amendment thereto, or mo-
tion or conference report thereon, unless and until the
Committee on Appropriations of that House reports sub-
divisions required by subsection (b) consistent with the
most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the
budget.
‘‘(d) SUBSEQUENT CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS.—In
the case of a concurrent resolution on the budget referred
to in section 304, the allocations under subsection (a) and
the subdivisions under subsection (b) shall be required
only to the extent necessary to take into account revisions
made in the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution
on the budget.
‘‘(e) A LTERATION OF SUBDIVISIONS.—At any time
after the Committee on Appropriations of either House re-
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ports the subdivisions required to be made under sub-
section (b), that committee may report to its House an
alteration of such subdivisions. Any alteration of such sub-
divisions must be consistent with any actions already
taken by its House on measures within that committee’s
jurisdiction.
‘‘(f) LEGISLATION SUBJECT TO POINT OF ORDER.—
(1) It shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives or the Senate to consider any appro-
priation measure or amendment thereto or motion or
conference report thereon, if the new budget author-
ity provided in that measure when added to already
enacted levels of new budget authority would
cause—
‘‘(A) any allocation of new budget author-
ity made pursuant to subsection (a) under the
most recently agreed to concurrent resolution
on the budget to be exceeded; or
‘‘(B) any subdivision of new budget au-
thority made pursuant to subsection (b) under
the most recently agreed to concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget to be exceeded except for a
supplemental appropriation for the current fis-
cal year.
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‘‘(2) An appropriation measure, amendment, or
conference report shall be considered to violate para-
graph (1) only if—
‘‘(A) the enactment of such appropriation
measure in the form it will be considered as
original text for purposes of amendment;
‘‘(B) the amendment is not an amendment
considered as original text for purposes of
amendment and the adoption of such amend-
ment and enactment of that measure as so
amended; or
‘‘(C) the enactment of such measure in the
form recommended in such conference report,
would cause such a violation.
‘‘(g) DETERMINATIONS BY BUDGET COMMITTEES.—
For purposes of this section, the levels of new budget au-
thority shall be determined on the basis of estimates made
by the Committee on the Budget of the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate, as the case may be.
‘‘(h) ADJUSTMENTS OF ALLOCATIONS OF DISCRE-
TIONARY SPENDING.—
‘‘(1) If a concurrent resolution on the budget is
not adopted by April 30, the chairman of the Com-
mittee on the Budget of the House of Representa-
tives shall submit to the House, on the first legisla-
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tive day following April 30, an allocation under sub-
section (a) to the Committee on Appropriations con-
sistent with the discretionary spending limits con-
tained in the most recent budget submitted by the
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United
States Code.
‘‘(2) As soon as practicable after an allocation
under paragraph (1) is submitted to the House, the
Committee on Appropriations shall make subdivi-
sions and promptly report those subdivisions to the
House of Representatives.
‘‘(3) Allocations and subdivisions made under
this subsection shall, for all purposes of this title, be
deemed to be allocations and subdivisions made
under subsections (a) and (b), until superseded by
allocations and subdivisions made under those sec-
tions for the same fiscal year.
‘‘SEC. 303. LEGISLATION PROVIDING NEW BUDGET AU-
THORITY OR CHANGES IN REVENUES OR THE
PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT MAY ONLY DO SO FOR
YEARS COVERED BY MOST RECENT BUDGET
RESOLUTION.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—
‘‘(1) It shall not be in order in the House of
Representatives or the Senate to consider any bill,
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joint resolution, amendment, motion, or conference
report which contains a provision that—
‘‘(A) increases new budget authority;
‘‘(B) decreases revenues; or
‘‘(C) increases or decreases the public debt
limit,
first effective in the last fiscal year covered by the
most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on the
budget or any subsequent fiscal year.
‘‘(2) A bill, joint resolution, amendment, or con-
ference report shall be considered to violate para-
graph (1) only if—
‘‘(A) the enactment of such bill or resolu-
tion in the form it will be considered as original
text for purposes of amendment;
‘‘(B) the amendment is not an amendment
considered as original text for purposes of
amendment and the adoption of such amend-
ment and enactment of the bill or joint resolu-
tion as so amended; or
‘‘(C) the enactment of such bill or resolu-
tion in the form recommended in such con-
ference report,
would cause such a violation.
‘‘(b) WAIVER IN THE SENATE.—
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‘‘(1) The committee of the Senate which reports
any bill or resolution (or amendment thereto) to
which subsection (a) applies may at or after the time
it reports such bill or resolution (or amendment), re-
port a resolution to the Senate (A) providing for the
waiver of subsection (a) with respect to such bill or
resolution (or amendment), and (B) stating the rea-
sons why the waiver is necessary. The resolution
shall then be referred to the Committee on the
Budget of the Senate. That committee shall report
the resolution to the Senate within 10 days after the
resolution is referred to it (not counting any day on
which the Senate is not in session) beginning with
the day following the day on which it is so referred,
accompanied by that committee’s recommendations
and reasons for such recommendations with respect
to the resolution. If the committee does not report
the resolution within such 10-day period, it shall
automatically be discharged from further consider-
ation of the resolution and the resolution shall be
placed on the calendar.
‘‘(2) During the consideration of any such reso-
lution, debate shall be limited to one hour, to be
equally divided between, and controlled by, the ma-
jority leader and minority leader or their designees,
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and the time on any debatable motion or appeal
shall be limited to twenty minutes, to be equally di-
vided between, and controlled by, the mover and the
manager of the resolution. In the event the manager
of the resolution is in favor of any such motion or
appeal, the time in opposition thereto shall be con-
trolled by the minority leader or his designee. Such
leaders, or either of them, may, from the time under
their control on the passage of such resolution, allot
additional time to any Senator during the consider-
ation of any debatable motion or appeal. No amend-
ment to the resolution is in order.
‘‘(3) If, after the Committee on the Budget has
reported (or been discharged from further consider-
ation of) the resolution, the Senate agrees to the
resolution, then subsection (a) shall not apply with
respect to the bill or resolution (or amendment
thereto) to which the resolution so agreed to applies.
‘‘SEC. 304. PERMISSIBLE REVISIONS OF CONCURRENT RES-
OLUTIONS ON THE BUDGET.
‘‘The two Houses may adopt a concurrent resolution
on the budget which revises or reaffirms the concurrent
resolution on the budget most recently agreed to and
which satisfies the requirements of section 301.
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‘‘SEC. 305. PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE CONSIDERATION
OF CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ON THE
BUDGET.
‘‘(a) P ROCEDURE IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AFTER REPORT OF COMMITTEE; DEBATE.—
‘‘(1) When the Committee on the Budget of the
House of Representatives has reported any concur-
rent resolution on the budget, it is in order subject
to clause (2)(l)(6) of rule XI of the Rules of the
House of Representatives to move that the House
resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union for the consideration of
the concurrent resolution. The motion is highly priv-
ileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the
motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move
to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed
to or disagreed to. A motion to resolve into the Com-
mittee of the Whole may be made even though a
previous motion has been disagreed to.
‘‘(2) General debate on any concurrent resolu-
tion on the budget in the House of Representatives
shall be limited to not more than 10 hours, which
shall be divided equally between the majority and
minority parties, and such additional hours of debate
as are consumed pursuant to paragraph (3). A mo-
tion further to limit debate is not debatable.
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‘‘(3) Following the presentation of opening
statements on the concurrent resolution on the
budget for a fiscal year by the chairman and rank-
ing minority member of the Committee on the Budg-
et of the House, there shall be a period of up to four
hours for debate on economic goals and policies.
‘‘(4) Only if a concurrent resolution on the
budget reported by the Committee on the Budget of
the House sets forth the economic goals (as de-
scribed in sections 3(a)(2) and (4)(b) of the Full
Employment Act of 1946) which the estimates,
amounts, and levels (as described in section 301(a))
set forth in such resolution are designed to achieve,
shall it be in order to offer to such resolution an
amendment relating to such goals, and such amend-
ment shall be in order only if it also proposes to
alter such estimates, amounts, and levels in germane
fashion in order to be consistent with the goals pro-
posed in such amendment.
‘‘(5) Consideration of any concurrent resolution
on the budget by the House of Representatives shall
be in the Committee of the Whole, and the resolu-
tion shall be considered for amendment under the
five-minute rule in accordance with the applicable
provisions of rule XXIII of the Rules of the House