of entitlements and discretionary spending, and to en-
force those requirements through a budget process in-
volving the President and Congress and sequestration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Family Budget Protection Act of 2003’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—
Sec. 1. Short title. 
TITLE I—BALANCED BUDGET BY FISCAL YEAR 2009
Sec. 101. Reduction of maximum deficit amount to zero. 
Sec. 102. Maximum deficit amount and limit on public debt points of order. 
Sec. 103. Adjustment in the event of negative revenue growth. 
TITLE II—DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS 
Sec. 201. Enforcing discretionary spending limits. 
Sec. 202. Establishment of family budget protection discretionary account. 
TITLE III—SPENDING CAPS ON THE GROWTH OF ENTITLEMENTS 
AND MANDATORIES 
Sec. 301. Spending caps on growth of entitlements and mandatories. 
Sec. 302. Exempt programs and activities. 
Sec. 303. Exceptions, limitations, and special rules. 
Sec. 304. Point of order. 
Sec. 305. Technical and conforming amendments. 
Sec. 306. Establishment of family budget protection mandatory account. 
TITLE IV—COMBATING WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE THROUGH 
SUNSETTING 
Sec. 401. Reauthorization of discretionary programs and unearned entitle-
ments. 
Sec. 402. Point of order. 
Sec. 403. Decennial sunsetting. 
TITLE V—JOINT BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND BIENNIAL 
BUDGETING 
Subtitle A—Joint Budget Resolutions 
Sec. 501. Joint budget resolutions. 
Subtitle B—Biennial Budgeting
Sec. 511. Revision of timetable. 
Sec. 512. Amendments to the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control 
Act of 1974. 
Sec. 513. Amendments to Rules of House of Representatives. 
Sec. 514. Amendments to title 31, United States Code. 
Sec. 515. Two-year appropriations; title and style of appropriation acts. 
Sec. 516. Multiyear authorizations. 
Sec. 517. Government strategic and performance plans on a biennial basis. 
Sec. 518. Biennial appropriation bills. 
Sec. 519. Assistance by Federal agencies to standing committees of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives. 
Sec. 520. Report on two-year fiscal period. 
Sec. 521. Special transition period for the 109th Congress. 
Subtitle C—Prevention of Government Shutdown 
Sec. 531. Amendment to title 31. 
Subtitle D—Effective Date 
Sec. 532. Effective date. 
TITLE VI—FURTHER ENFORCEMENT AMENDMENTS 
Sec. 601. Super-majority points of order. 
Sec. 602. Budget resolution enforcement point of order. 
Sec. 603. Point of order waiver protection.
TITLE I—BALANCED BUDGET BY 
FISCAL YEAR 2009
SEC. 101. REDUCTION OF MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT TO 
ZERO. 
Section 253 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 253. ENFORCING DEFICIT TARGETS. 
‘‘(a) SEQUESTRATION.—Within 15 calendar days 
after Congress adjourns to end a session (other than of 
the first session of the One Hundred Eighth Congress) 
and on the same day as a sequestration (if any) under 
section 251 and section 252A, but after any sequestration 
required by section 251 (enforcing discretionary spending
limits) or section 252A (enforcing controls on direct 
spending), there shall be a sequestration to eliminate the 
excess deficit (if any remains) if it exceeds the margin. 
‘‘(b) EXCESS DEFICIT; MARGIN.—The excess deficit 
is, if greater than zero, the estimated deficit for the budget 
year, minus the maximum deficit amount for that year. 
The ‘margin’ for any fiscal year is $5,000,000,000. 
‘‘(c) DIVIDING THE SEQUESTRATION.—To eliminate 
the excess deficit in a budget year, half of the required 
outlay reductions shall be obtained from non-exempt de-
fense accounts (accounts designated as function 050 in the 
President’s fiscal year 2005 budget submission) and half 
from non-exempt, non-defense accounts (all other non-ex-
empt accounts). 
‘‘(d) DEFENSE.—Each non-exempt defense account 
shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multi-
plying the level of sequesterable budgetary resources in 
that account at that time by the uniform percentage nec-
essary to carry out subsection (c). If any defense accounts 
are exempted by the President, no adjustments shall be 
made in the uniform percentage for non-exempt defense 
accounts. 
‘‘(e) NON-DEFENSE.—Actions to reduce non-defense 
accounts shall be taken in the following order:
‘‘(1) FIRST.—All reductions in automatic 
spending increases under section 256(a) shall be 
made.
‘‘(2) SECOND.—If additional reductions in non-
defense accounts are required to be made, the max-
imum reduction permissible under sections 256(b) 
(guaranteed student loans) and 256(c) (foster care 
and adoption assistance) shall be made. 
‘‘(3) THIRD.—(A) If additional reductions in 
non-defense accounts are required to be made, each 
remaining non-exempt, non-defense account shall be 
reduced by the uniform percentage necessary to 
make the reductions in non-defense outlays required 
by subsection (c), except that any program specified 
in section 256 that is subject to a 2-percent limita-
tion shall not be reduced by more than 2 percent in 
total including any reduction of less than 2 percent 
made under 252A, if it has been reduced by 2 per-
cent under either such section, it may not be further 
reduced under this section; and the uniform percent 
applicable to all other programs under this sub-
section shall be increased (if necessary) to a level 
sufficient to achieve the required reduction in non-
defense outlays.
‘‘(B) For purposes of determining reductions 
under subparagraph (A), outlay reduction (as a re-
sult of sequestration of Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion commodity price support contracts in the fiscal 
year of a sequestration) that would occur in the fol-
lowing fiscal year shall be credited as outlay reduc-
tions in the fiscal year of the sequestration. 
If any defense accounts are exempted by the President, 
no adjustments shall be made in the uniform percentage 
for non-exempt non-defense accounts. 
‘‘(f) BASELINE ASSUMPTIONS; PART-YEAR APPRO-
PRIATIONS.—
‘‘(1) BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS.—For purposes of 
subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), accounts shall be 
assumed to be at the level in the baseline minus any 
reductions required to be made under sections 251 
and 252A. 
‘‘(2) PART-YEAR APPROPRIATIONS.—If, on the 
date specified in subsection (a), there is in effect an 
Act making or continuing appropriations for part of 
a fiscal year for any non-exempt budget account, 
then the dollar sequestration calculated for that ac-
count under subsection (d) or (e), as applicable, 
shall be subtracted from—
‘‘(A) the annualized amount otherwise 
available by law in that account under that or 
a subsequent part-year appropriation; and 
‘‘(B) when a full-year appropriation for 
that account is enacted, from the amount other-
wise provided by the full-year appropriation; ex-
cept that the amount to be sequestered from 
that account shall be reduced (but not below 
zero) by the savings achieved by that appropria-
tion when the enacted amount is less than the 
baseline for that account. 
‘‘(g) LOOK-BACK SEQUESTER.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—On July 1 of each fiscal 
year, the Director of OMB shall determine if laws 
effective during the current fiscal year will cause the 
deficit to exceed the maximum deficit amount for 
such fiscal year. If the limit is exceeded, there shall 
be a preliminary sequester on July 1 to eliminate the 
excess. 
‘‘(2) PERMANENT
SEQUESTER.—Budget au-
thority sequestered on July 1 pursuant to paragraph 
(1) shall be permanently canceled on July 15. 
‘‘(3) NO MARGIN.—The margin for determining 
a 
sequester 
under 
this 
subsection 
shall 
be 
$5,000,000,000.
‘‘(4) SEQUESTRATION PROCEDURES.—The pro-
vision of subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section 
shall apply to a sequester under this subsection. 
‘‘(h) MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT.—The term ‘max-
imum deficit amount’ means—
‘‘(1) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2005, 
$429,200,000,000; 
‘‘(2) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2006, 
$368,400,000,000; 
‘‘(3) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2007, 
$307,600,000,000; 
‘‘(4) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2008, 
$270,000,000,000; 
‘‘(5) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2009, 
$186,000,000,000; 
‘‘(6) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2010, 
$125,200,000,000; 
‘‘(7) 
with 
respect 
to 
fiscal 
year 
2011, 
$64,400,000,000; and 
‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2012 and fiscal 
years thereafter, zero.’’.
SEC. 102. MAXIMUM DEFICIT AMOUNT AND LIMIT ON PUB-
LIC DEBT POINTS OF ORDER. 
(a) MDA POINT OF ORDER.—Section 312 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) MAXIMUM DEFICIT POINT OF ORDER.—It shall 
not be in order in the House of Representatives or the 
Senate to consider any bill, joint resolution, amendment, 
or conference report that includes any provision that 
would result in a deficit for a fiscal year that exceeds the 
maximum deficit amount for such fiscal year.’’. 
(b) BALANCING THE BUDGET.—Section 301(a)(3) of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 is amended by add-
ing ‘‘(except that after fiscal year 2011 there shall be no 
provision for a deficit) after ‘‘budget’’. 
SEC. 103. ADJUSTMENT IN THE EVENT OF NEGATIVE REV-
ENUE GROWTH. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control of Act of 1985 is amended 
by repealing sections 258, 258A, 258B, and 258C and in-
serting a new section 258 to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 258. ADJUSTMENT IN THE EVENT OF NEGATIVE REV-
ENUE GROWTH. 
‘‘Whenever an OMB sequestration preview report or 
an OMB sequestration update report for a budget year 
estimates that the level of aggregate Federal revenues for
the budget year will be less than the level of aggregate 
Federal revenues for the prior year, OMB may change the 
maximum deficit amount under section 253(h) for that 
budget year to the prior year’s amount or increase the 
maximum deficit amount for the budget year by not more 
than the amount of the revenue shortfall.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENT.—The table 
of contents set forth in 250(c) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended 
by striking the items relating to sections 258, 258A, 
258B, and 258C and adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 257 the following new item:
‘‘Sec. 258. Adjustment in the event of negative revenue growth.’’.
TITLE II—DISCRETIONARY 
SPENDING LIMITS 
SEC. 201. ENFORCING DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS. 
(a) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMITS.—Sections 
251(b) and (c) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control of Act of 1985 are amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(b) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT.—As used in 
this part, the term ‘discretionary spending limit’ means—
‘‘(1) with respect to fiscal year 2005—
‘‘(A) $795,442,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than
$376,005,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(2) with respect to fiscal year 2006—
‘‘(A) $807,374,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$367,867,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(3) with respect to fiscal year 2007—
‘‘(A) $819,484,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$359,755,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2008—
‘‘(A) $831,777,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than
$351,648,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2009—
‘‘(A) $844,243,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$350,955,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(6) with respect to fiscal year 2010—
‘‘(A) $856,917,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$349,891,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(7) with respect to fiscal year 2011—
‘‘(A) $869,771,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than
$348,512,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; 
‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2012—
‘‘(A) $882,817,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$347,137,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category; and 
‘‘(9) with respect to fiscal year 2013—
‘‘(A) $896,060,000,000 in new budget au-
thority 
of 
which 
no 
more 
than 
$345,628,000,000 shall be for the nondefense 
category; and 
‘‘(B) $llll in outlays of which no 
more than $llll shall be for the non-
defense category.’’. 
(b) ELIMINATION OF GRAMM-RUDMAN EXPIRATION 
DATE.—Section 275 of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed.
(c) ELIMINATION OF EMERGENCY DESIGNATION AND 
ADJUSTMENT.—(1) Section 252(e) of the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed. 
(2) Section 314(b)(1) of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 is repealed. 
(d) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT
OF 
ORDER.—Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974 (as amended by section 102(a)) is further amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) DISCRETIONARY SPENDING LIMIT POINT OF 
ORDER.—It shall not be in order in the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate to consider any bill, joint resolu-
tion, amendment, or conference report that—
‘‘(1) increases the discretionary spending limits 
for any ensuing fiscal year after the budget year; or 
‘‘(2) would cause the discretionary spending 
limits for the budget year to be breached.’’. 
(e) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.—
Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (as 
amended by this section) is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(i) ADVANCE APPROPRIATION POINT OF ORDER.—
It shall not be in order in the House of Representatives 
or the Senate to consider any appropriation bill or joint 
resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report